Title : New Features in Java 7.0 - Part 1
Author : Christy
Date : Mon Feb 23rd, 2009

This article discusses the new features that are available in Java 7.0. Java 7.0 comes with bunch of new features – language level changes as well as API level changes and this article concentrates on the new API features such as Cache API, New Date and Time API and New IO 2 as well as the language level changes in the form of Super packages. The readers are assumed that they are more familiar with the Java 5.0 language level changes such as Generics and Annotations. This article covers few of the new features in Java 7.0 and the remaining set of new features will be covered in the next article. It is likely that the APIs may undergo changes before the formal release of Java 7.0 happens.

Title : Introduction to Java Module System in Java 7.0
Author : Christy
Date : Fri Jan 16th, 2009

This article explains the new Java Module System that will be included in the Java 7.0 release. Modules are new to the java language and they provide a standard for developing and deploying applications. The article will explain the various sub components that are available as part of the Java Module System's architecture. The various sections discussed in the article will provide in-depth details about the module definition, the metadata associated with the module, the versioning system and the repositories for storing and retrieving the module definitions.