JAVA

Java Versions, Features and History-

• Released on 23 January 1996, JDK 1.0 version.
• Released on 19 February 1997 JDK 1.1 version.
  New features in JDK 1.1 
  
  1. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
  2. Inner Classes
  3. Java Beans
  4. RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
  5. Reflection (introspection only)
• Released on 8 December 1998 J2SE 1.2 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.2 
  
  1. Collections framework.
  2. Java String memory map for constants.
  3. Just In Time (JIT) compiler.
  4. Jar Signer for signing Java ARchive (JAR) files.
  5. Policy Tool for granting access to system resources.
  6. Java Foundation Classes (JFC) which consists of Swing 1.0, Drag and Drop, and Java 2D class libraries.
  7. Java Plug-in
  8. Scrollable result sets, BLOB, CLOB, batch update, user-defined types in JDBC.
  9. Audio support in Applets.
• Released on 8 May 2000 J2SE 1.3 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.3 
  
  1. Java Sound
  2. Jar Indexing
  3. A huge list of enhancements in almost all the java area.
• Released on 6 February 2002 J2SE 1.4 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.4 
  
  1. XML Processing
  2. Java Print Service
  3. Logging API
  4. Java Web Start
  5. JDBC 3.0 API
  6. Assertions
  7. Preferences API
  8. Chained Exception
  9. IPv6 Support
  10. Regular Expressions
  11. Image I/O API
• Released on 30 September 2004 J2SE 1.5 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.5 
  
  1. Generics
  2. Enhanced for Loop
  3. Autoboxing/Unboxing
  4. Typesafe Enums
  5. Varargs
  6. Static Import
  7. Metadata (Annotations)
  8. Instrumentation
• Released on 11 December 2006 J2SE 1.6 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.6 
  
  1. Scripting Language Support
  2. JDBC 4.0 API
  3. Java Compiler API
  4. Pluggable Annotations
  5. Native PKI, Java GSS, Kerberos and LDAP support.
  6. Integrated Web Services.
  7. Lot more enhancements.
• Released on 28 July 2011 J2SE 1.7 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.7 
  
  1. Strings in switch Statement
  2. Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation
  3. Multiple Exception Handling
  4. Support for Dynamic Languages
  5. Try with Resources
  6. Java nio Package
  7. Binary Literals, underscore in literals
  8. Diamond Syntax
  9. Automatic null Handling
• Released on March 2014 J2SE 1.8 version.
  New features in J2SE 1.8
1. Lambda expressions, a new language feature, enable you to treat functionality as a method argument, or code as data.
2. Other significant enhancements and changes to the Java language and standard libraries have been added, including default methods, the new java.util.stream package, and the Date-Time API.
3. Compact Profiles contain predefined subsets of the Java SE platform and enable applications that do not require the entire Platform to be deployed and run on small devices.
4. Security enhancements include updates to the Java Cryptography Architecture; limited doPrivileged, a mechanism that enables code to assert a subset of its privileges; SSL/TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) Extension; and keystore enhancements.
5. JavaFX documentation has been updated for this release.
6. A new JavaScript engine, Nashorn, is included in JDK 8.
7. Java Mission Control 5.3 is included in JDK 8.

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