Description: The release of Java SE 7 brings a number of new features and enhancements. This course introduces and describes these features and improvements. The course also describes the operating systems and browser support, and Java SE 7 support in NetBeans IDE 7.0.1. It explores Java language enhancements, such as using Strings in switch statements, improved integral literals, improved type inference, improved exception handling, the try-with-resources statement, and simplified varargs method invocation. Core technology enhancements, such as the JVM enhancements - support for dynamically typed languages, the garbage-first collector, and upgraded class-loader architecture - as well as concurrency and collections, and JDBC enhancements, are also covered.

Target Audience: Programmers familiar with previous versions of Java who wish to explore new features and enhancements and begin using Java SE 7

Duration: 01:00