Question

What are the main features that JDK has added?

Answer 1

The following are some of the key features that JDK 7 introduced:

• A better diamond operator type inference.
• Adding support for strings in switching and case expressions
• Try-with-resource or automatic resource management
• Fourth-Join Framework
• Use an underline in literal numbers
• Capability of using a single catch block to catch numerous exceptions
• Binary literals beginning with "0b"
• The updated File API and Java NIO 2.0
• G1 Garbage Collectors