Month: June 2008
JDK 1.5 Language Enhancements
Overview Generics Enhanced for loop Autoboxing and auto-unboxing Typesafe enumerated types (enums) Variable arguments (varargs) Static imports Metadata – Annotations One of the main considerations in creating J2SE 5.0 was the ease of use for programmers. This slide lists some of the main changes to the language specification: Generics provides compile-time type checking and eliminate…
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