In JavaOne 2008, Danny Coward the Chief Architect (Client Software) demonstrated new developments in Java SE 7 release.
JDK 7 Development Page: https://jdk7.dev.java.net
Some highlighted features.....
+New default UI named Nimbus (It will be available from JDK 6 update 10)..
https://nimbus.dev.java.net/spec/index.html
https://nimbus.dev.java.net
+Performance Increase - Upto 280% Increase comparing to Java SE 5
+More Language support on JVM
+New Java Plugin Architecture for Applets
More features from http://tech.puredanger.com/java7
Modularity
Libraries
- JSR 203 NIO2
- JSR 275 Units and Quantities
- JSR 310 Date and Time API
- JSR 107 Cache API
- JSR 166 Concurrency Utilities
- JSR 225 XQuery API for Java
- JSR 284 Resource Consumption Management
- Miscellaneous Library Changes
Swing
- JSR 296 Swing Application Framework
- JSR 295 Beans Binding
- JSR 303 Beans Validation
- Java Media Components
JMX
Tools
Types and Generics
http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward/resource/PS_TS-6271_SETrackTalk_Final.pdf
http://puredanger.com/techfiles/Java7WhatsNext.ppt