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In Java 7 there were quite a lot of new things added to the File NIO package (java.nio)- there was a new java.nio.file package and java.nio.file.attribute package. Main highlights of the java.nio.file package are the following classes: Path: Its an object used to locate a file or directory in the file system. The value contained [...]

Fork-Join Framework was added as part of Java 7 which makes use of the ExecutorService interface to distribute tasks to the worker threads in the thread pool. The difference in Fork-Join is that the ideal worker threads can steal queued subtasks from the other tasks and execute them. There are a few important classes you [...]

In our previous post we looked at different features added as part of Project Coin, in this post we will look at another language construct added as part of Java 7 and Project Coin in particular. It is the try-with-resource construct also called as Automatic Resource Management. Before getting into the details of the construct, [...]

As part of the Project Coin, there were quite a few language enhancements were added to the Language. The last time Java language changed was in the Java 5 release when Generics were added. The changes in introduced in the Java 7 were welcomed by java community around the world. This was seen as a stepping [...]