Java SE7 New Features: Java Language and Technology Enhancements

Course details

The release of Java SE 7 brings a number of new features and enhancements. This course introduces and describes these features and improvements. The course also describes the operating systems and browser support, and Java SE 7 support in NetBeans IDE 7.0.1. It explores Java language enhancements, such as using Strings in switch statements, improved integral literals, improved type inference, improved exception handling, the try-with-resources statement, and simplified varargs method invocation. Core technology enhancements, such as the JVM enhancements - support for dynamically typed languages, the garbage-first collector, and upgraded class-loader architecture - as well as concurrency and collections, and JDBC enhancements, are also covered.

• identify the new features of JDK 7
• use language enhancements in JDK 7
• describe the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) enhancements in Java SE 7
• describe the concurrency and collection enhancements in Java SE 7
• describe the JDBC enhancements in Java SE 7
• implement the Fork/Join framework
• use the ThreadLocalRandom class
• use JDBC enhancements