Java History - MyExamCloud Presentation Java version changes and their features,

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JDK Alpha-beta version
1995
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It consisted of an unstable API.
It is not a stable version.
Oak changed to Java.
First stable version.
Access specifiers were added.

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JDK 1.1
February 1997
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Language changes: Inner
classes, JavaBeans.
Library Changes: AWT Event
changes, JDBC, and RMI( Remote
Method Invocation), JIT(Just In
Time compiler for Microsoft
Windows platforms).

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J2SE 1.2 (Playground)
December 1998
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Language Changes: the Strictfp keyword.
Library Changes: Swing as a new UI-System on top of AWT. JVM was added with JIT compiler, Java plugins, and
Java IDL (Technology for distributed objects, Similar to RMI but it can interact regardless of the objects written in
java or c or c++ or COBOL, etc).

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J2SE 1.3 (Kestral)
May 2000
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Platform changes: Hotspot JVM included. RMI was modified to be compatible with CORBA (Design specification
for ORB (Object Request Broker)).
Language changes: Java Naming and Directory interface added to the core libraries.
Library Changes: Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA), Java Sound, and Synthetic Proxy classes got added.

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J2SE 1.4 (Merlin)
May 2000
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Language changes: The assert keyword.
Library changes: Regular expressions, Exception chaining, IPV6 support, Non-Blocking IO, Logging API, Image I/O
API, Integrated XML Parser, and XSLT(eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) Processor, Integrated
security and also cryptography extensions(JCE, JSSE, JAAS), Java Web start included, java.util.prefs.

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J2SE 6.0 (Tiger)
September 2004
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Language changes: Generics, Annotations, enum types.var-args, enhanced for loops.
Library changes: Concurrent utilities in java.util.concurrent. Scanner class joins for parsing data thus from different
input streams and buffers.

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Java SE 6 (Mustang)
December 2006
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Scripting language support i.e., generic API for tight integration with scripting languages.
JDBC 4.0 support. Here, improvements to the existing libraries no extra language features adds up except
@Override.

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Java SE 7 (Dolphin)
July 2011
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Language changes: Project coin(Small changes/Enhancements and bug releases). Try-with-resources, the diamond
operator(“<TypeName>: to simplify the use of generics ”).
Library changes: A new Abstracted file-system API with support for virtual file systems. Improved concurrency
libraries and elliptic curve encryption.
Platform changes: Support for dynamic languages.

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Java SE 8 (Spider)
March 2014
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Language changes: Lambda expressions, Annotation on java types. Improvements or development in project coin.
Library changes: Improved Data and Time API.

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Java SE 9
September 2017
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Library changes: Java Platform Module System(jigsaw). Modularization of the platform makes the modules to replace
the messy classpath and modules with real dependency information.

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Java SE 10
March 2018
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Language changes: Local variable type inference(var keyword), Garbage Collector Interface.

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Java SE 11
September 2018
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Language Changes: The Local variable syntax adds up for lambda parameters.
Library changes: JEP 321 HTTP client standardized.

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Java SE 12
March 2019
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Language changes: It has enhanced Switch expressions for pattern matching. The new Syntax removes the need
for a break statement to prevent fall-throughs.
JVM Changes were also made.

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Java SE 13
March 2019
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Text Blocks, New methods in String class for text blocks. Switch Expression Enhancements. Reimplementation of
the socket API.

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Java SE 14
March 2020
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Switch Expressions (standard). Pattern Matching for instance-of. Helpful Null pointer Exceptions. Packaging tool,
NUMA-Aware memory allocation. JFR Event streaming.

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Java SE 15
September 2020
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Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm(EdDSA), Sealed classes, Hidden classes, also Remove the Nashorn
JavaScript Engine. A Scalable Low Latency Garbage Collector, Foreign Memory Access API.

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Java SE 16
March 2021
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Vector API, Enable C++14 language features, Migrate from Mercurial to Git, Concurrent Thread-stack processing,
Elastic Metaspace.

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Java SE 17
September 2021
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Vector API, Enable C++14 language features, Migrate from Mercurial to Git, Concurrent Thread-stack processing,
Elastic Metaspace.

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