JDK 7 Features updated ! Plan B has apparently been approved

Baptiste Wicht

I was presenting the Plan B of JDK 7 the last week and apparently, this plan has been approved.

The JDK 7 Features page has been updated on the site of Oracle.

So here are the (definitive ?) list of features for JDK 7 :

JSR 292: Support for dynamically-typed languages (InvokeDynamic)
Languages update of the project Coin
Concurrency and collections updates (jsr166y)
ionet JSR 203: More new I/O APIs for the Java platform (NIO.2)
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol)
Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)
client XRender pipeline for Java 2D
Create new platform APIs for 6u10 graphics features
Nimbus look-and-feel for Swing
Swing JLayer component

And we can also see that there is some new features that we doesn't have seen before:

TLS 1.2
JDBC 4.1
Unicode 6.0
Locale enhancement
Separate user locale and user-interface locale
NIO.2 filesystem provider for zip/jar archives
Use the Windows Vista IPv6 stack when available

And after all that informations, we can see the features delayed to JDK 8 :

JSR 294: Language and VM support for modular programming
JSR 308: Annotations on Java types
JSR TBD: Language support for collections [NEW]
JSR TBD: Project Lambda
Modularization (Project Jigsaw)
JSR 296: Swing application framework
Swing JDatePicker component

For more informations and the complete list of features for the two versions of JDK, you can consult the JDK 7 Features page. There will certainly be some additional informations at JavaOne this week.

Java 7 has been released!

Java 7 Delays and Plan B

Java 7 : Languages updates from Project Coin

Java 7 : More dynamics

NIO.2 : The new Path API in Java 7

Java 7 : New I/O features (Asynchronous operations, multicasting, random access) with JSR 203 (NIO.2)

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