Java 1.5 language changes

[Mike Schilling]

I'm starting to plan upgrading some tools I have for analyzing Java source
files to work with 1.5 [1] I've started a list of language changes, and
come up with the following

* generics, of course
* annotations
* autoboxing
* covariant return types
* enums
* foreach
* static import
* variable-length argument lists

Lots of library changes as well, but this list contains only language syntax
changes. Have I left anything out?

1. Yeah, I know, but people update their webapp containers slowly, so it's
only now feasible to start developing our product with 1.5, and not yet with
1.6.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I'm starting to plan upgrading some tools I have for analyzing Java source
files to work with 1.5 [1] I've started a list of language changes, and
come up with the following

* generics, of course
* annotations
* autoboxing
* covariant return types
* enums
* foreach
* static import
* variable-length argument lists

Lots of library changes as well, but this list contains only language syntax
changes. Have I left anything out?

It looks complete to me.

Arne

 

[Roedy Green]

Lots of library changes as well, but this list contains only language syntax
changes. Have I left anything out?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html#DIFFERENCES
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"For reason that have a lot to do with US Government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction."
~ Paul Wolfowitz 2003-06, explaining how the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to a gullible public.

 

[Lew]

Mike Schilling

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html#DIFFERENCES

You can go right to the wellspring for this information:
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html>

Their list does cover some of the library enhancements.

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

I'm starting to plan upgrading some tools I have for analyzing Java source
files to work with 1.5 [1] I've started a list of language changes, and
come up with the following

* generics, of course
* annotations
* autoboxing
* covariant return types
* enums
* foreach
* static import
* variable-length argument lists

Lots of library changes as well, but this list contains only language syntax
changes. Have I left anything out?

Java 5 changed the memory model, which is definitely a language change,
although not a syntax change and probably not something that affects
most people (more likely, it makes broken code less broken).