New features in java 7

Question

What new features in java 7 is going to be implemented? And what are they doing now?

Answer 1

The following list contains links to the the enhancements pages in the Java SE 7.

Swing
IO and New IO
Networking
Security
Concurrency Utilities
Rich Internet Applications (RIA)/Deployment
    Requesting and Customizing Applet Decoration in Dragg able Applets
    Embedding JNLP File in Applet Tag
    Deploying without Codebase
    Handling Applet Initialization Status with Event Handlers
Java 2D
Java XML – JAXP, JAXB, and JAX-WS
Internationalization
java.lang Package
    Multithreaded Custom Class Loaders in Java SE 7
Java Programming Language
    Binary Literals
    Strings in switch Statements
    The try-with-resources Statement
    Catching Multiple Exception Types and Rethrowing Exceptions with Improved Type Checking
    Underscores in Numeric Literals
    Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation
    Improved Compiler Warnings and Errors When Using Non-Reifiable Formal Parameters with Varargs Methods
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
    Java Virtual Machine Support for Non-Java Languages
    Garbage-First Collector
    Java HotSpot Virtual Machine Performance Enhancements
JDBC

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