Java7 – A look back

I started writing a blog post on what’s new in the upcoming Java8 release, and thought I would start by doing a quick look back at what Java7 brought to us.

Java7 was released back in July 2011, and was described as “more evolutionary than revolutionary”.

“There are some significant improvements, but no really earth-shattering or ground-breaking kinds of features.” – Oracle chief Java architect Mark Reinhold

It didn’t contain the much hyped lambda expressions for example. Still, it did bring a lot of other neat additions to the Java language. You can see the more at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/, or read on for my summary.

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Tags: Java, Java7