Introducing Java SE 7 aka Project Coin

摘要

Project Coin, a Java Community Process (JCP) backed JSR 334 initiative is an effort to make the Java programming language more friendly, productive and easy to code. JSR 334 introduces a few small, but highly useful, language features which are now an integral part of Java SE 7. The significance of JSR 334 is rare in a way because this is the first core Java programming language changes since JDK 5 (project Tiger) was released in 2004. This article is the first in a series of two articles aimed at familiarizing you with some of these language features.