Java 1.5
- Genéricos (generics)
- Bucle "for/in" (for/in loop)
- Autoempaquetado/desempaquetado (autoboxing/unboxing)
- Enumeraciones seguras con tipo (typesafe enums)
- Argumentos variables (varargs)
- Importaciones estáticas (static imports)
- Anotaciones/metadatos (annotations/metadata)
Java 1.6
- Servicios web y procesado de XML (web services and XML processing)
- JDBC 4.0
- Programación basada en anotaciones (annotation-based programming)
- APIs de compilación de Java (Java compiler APIs)
- APIs de escritorio (desktop APIs)
- Scripting
Java 1.7
Las características de Java 7 y 8 están sacadas de la página web de OpenJDK, que tiene un formato bastante interesante en plan tabla "plain text".
Category Description
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vm JSR 292: Support for dynamically-typed languages (InvokeDynamic)
Strict class-file checking
lang JSR 334: Small language enhancements (Project Coin)
core Upgrade class-loader architecture
Method to close a URLClassLoader
Concurrency and collections updates (jsr166y)
i18n Unicode 6.0
Locale enhancement
Separate user locale and user-interface locale
ionet JSR 203: More new I/O APIs for the Java platform (NIO.2)
NIO.2 filesystem provider for zip/jar archives
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol)
Use the Windows Vista IPv6 stack
TLS 1.2
sec Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)
jdbc JDBC 4.1
client XRender pipeline for Java 2D
Create new platform APIs for 6u10 graphics features
Nimbus look-and-feel for Swing
Swing JLayer component
Gervill sound synthesizer [NEW]
web Update the XML stack
mgmt Enhanced MBeans [UPDATED]
Java 1.8
Category JEP Description
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--/-- 126 Lambda Expressions & Virtual Extension Methods
138 Autoconf-Based Build System
160 Lambda-Form Representation for Method Handles
161 Compact Profiles
162 Prepare for Modularization
164 Leverage CPU Instructions for AES Cryptography
174 Nashorn JavaScript Engine
176 Mechanical Checking of Caller-Sensitive Methods
179 Document JDK API Support and Stability
vm/-- 142 Reduce Cache Contention on Specified Fields
vm/gc 122 Remove the Permanent Generation
173 Retire Some Rarely-Used GC Combinations
vm/rt 136 Enhanced Verification Errors
147 Reduce Class Metadata Footprint
148 Small VM
171 Fence Intrinsics
core/-- 153 Launch JavaFX Applications
core/lang 101 Generalized Target-Type Inference
104 Annotations on Java Types
105 DocTree API
106 Add Javadoc to javax.tools
117 Remove the Annotation-Processing Tool (apt)
118 Access to Parameter Names at Runtime
120 Repeating Annotations
139 Enhance javac to Improve Build Speed
172 DocLint
core/libs 103 Parallel Array Sorting
107 Bulk Data Operations for Collections
109 Enhance Core Libraries with Lambda
112 Charset Implementation Improvements
119 javax.lang.model Implementation Backed by Core Reflection
135 Base64 Encoding & Decoding
149 Reduce Core-Library Memory Usage
150 Date & Time API
155 Concurrency Updates
170 JDBC 4.2
177 Optimize java.text.DecimalFormat.format
178 Statically-Linked JNI Libraries
180 Handle Frequent HashMap Collisions with Balanced Trees
core/i18n 127 Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data
128 BCP 47 Locale Matching
133 Unicode 6.2
core/net 184 HTTP URL Permissions
core/sec 113 MS-SFU Kerberos 5 Extensions
114 TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) Extension
115 AEAD CipherSuites
121 Stronger Algorithms for Password-Based Encryption
123 Configurable Secure Random-Number Generation
124 Enhance the Certificate Revocation-Checking API
129 NSA Suite B Cryptographic Algorithms
130 SHA-224 Message Digests
131 PKCS#11 Crypto Provider for 64-bit Windows
140 Limited doPrivileged
166 Overhaul JKS-JCEKS-PKCS12 Keystores
web/jaxp 185 JAXP 1.5: Restrict Fetching of External Resources
Semántica de las categorías:
vm: comp, gc, rt, svc
core: lang, libs, i18n, net, sec, svc
client: gui, sound
web: jaxp, jaxb, jaxws, corba
