John
Germantown
Why I want to consume this — 2 years ago
As is pretty evident from the JDK 1.5 documentation, JDK 1.5 adds number of new features to the Java language and classes to the standard Java SE standard library.
Some of the coolest new features include:- generics (syntactically like C++ templates but incapable of metaprogramming, Sun says)
- java.util.concurrent package of high-level thread-management classes
- Scanner offers an easier way to write tokenizers and such
- new classes for XML validation & XPath expression evaluation
- 5 new types of RowSet including one designed for the Web
- autoboxing (implicit conversion of primitives to their object-equivalents
- collection-iterating for-each loop
- ProcessBuilder – a better way to spawn processes than the treacherous Runtime.exec) technique
JDK 1.6 comes out shortly and I want to completely master 1.5 before 1.6 arrives.