Java New Features

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Java 5 New Features

Enhanced For Loop, Generics, Enums, Autoboxing

Java 8 New Features

Functional Programming - Lambdas & Streams, Static methods in interface

Java 9 New Features

Modularization (Java Platform Module System)

Local Variable Type Inference

Declare variables with inferred types using var

JShell

Interactive REPL tool for experimenting with code

Private methods in interfaces

Define private methods to reduce code duplication

Switch Expressions

Use switch statement as expression for more concise code

Text Blocks

Readable way to declare multi-line string literals (Between """ and """)

Record Classes

Concise way to declare classes mainly used for data

Record Example

public record Person(String firstName, String lastName, int age) { }