Java SE 7 - Coming on mid 2009

In JavaOne 2008, Danny Coward the Chief Architect (Client Software) demonstrated new developments in Java SE 7 release.

JDK 7 Development Page: https://jdk7.dev.java.net

Some highlighted features.....

+New default UI named Nimbus (It will be available from JDK 6 update 10)..
https://nimbus.dev.java.net/spec/index.html
https://nimbus.dev.java.net

+Performance Increase - Upto 280% Increase comparing to Java SE 5

+More Language support on JVM

+New Java Plugin Architecture for Applets

More features from http://tech.puredanger.com/java7

Modularity

• JSR 294 Superpackages
• JSR 277 Java Module System

Libraries

• JSR 203 NIO2
• JSR 275 Units and Quantities
• JSR 310 Date and Time API
• JSR 107 Cache API
• JSR 166 Concurrency Utilities
• JSR 225 XQuery API for Java
• JSR 284 Resource Consumption Management
• Miscellaneous Library Changes

Swing

• JSR 296 Swing Application Framework
• JSR 295 Beans Binding
• JSR 303 Beans Validation
• Java Media Components

JMX

• JSR 255 JMX 2.0
• JSR 262 Web Services Connector for JMX

Tools

• JSR 260 Javadoc Technology Update

Types and Generics

• Reified Generics
• Type Literals
• JSR 308 Annotations on Java Types
• Type Inference

Reference...

http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward/resource/PS_TS-6271_SETrackTalk_Final.pdf
http://puredanger.com/techfiles/Java7WhatsNext.ppt