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What's new in the Java world? (Discussion)
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severoon said – Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:05:06 -0000 ( Link )
Well, the biggest news since you’ve written in Java is probably the language features introduced in Java 5. There were several enhancement features, ranging from the awesome (generics—think C++ templates) to the nice-to-have (for-each loop syntax) to the ghastly (varargs, ugh).
The standard libraries have been built out in too many ways to count. Notable changes in the last 5 or so years might include the new I/O stuff (basically, a form of direct memory access for manipulating large amounts of data) and much-needed enhancements to thread management (read- and write-locking) and garbage collection (different kinds of references that don’t necessarily guarantee the referent will be preserved by the next gc pass).
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