JDK Version history - Best Features

JDK Version history - Best Features

In this post I'll not go deep into each feature but keep it as a chit-sheet for interview preparation on different JDK best features in different versions.

JDK 7 - new and best features

1. Diamond operator / Type interface >>

2. String is now allowed in Switch

3.Automatic resource management - try-with-resources statement

4.Underscore in Numeric literals _

5. Improved exception handling - Catching Multiple Exception Type in Single Catch Block

6. New file system API (NIO 2.0)

7. Binary Literals with prefix "0b"

8. Fork and Join

JDK 8 - new and best features

1. Lambda Expressions, a new language feature, has been introduced in this release. They enable you to treat functionality as a method argument, or code as data. Lambda expressions let you express instances of single-method interfaces (referred to as functional interfaces) more compactly.

2.Collections : Classes in the new java.util.stream package provide a Stream API to support functional-style operations on streams of elements.

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