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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>New Developments</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"/></head><body><div class="sect1" title="New Developments"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="learnjava3-PREFACE-2-SECT-1"/>New Developments</h1></div></div></div><p>This edition of <span class="emphasis"><em>Learning Java</em></span> is actually the
sixth edition—updated and retitled—of our original, popular
<span class="emphasis"><em>Exploring Java</em></span>. With each edition, we’ve taken great
care not only to add new material covering additional features, but to
thoroughly revise and update the existing content to synthesize the
coverage and add years of real-world perspective and experience to these
pages.</p><p>One noticeable change in recent editions is that we’ve deemphasized
the use of applets, reflecting their diminished role in recent years in
creating interactive web pages. In contrast, we’ve greatly expanded our
coverage of Java web applications, web services, and XML, which are now
mature technologies.</p><p>We cover all of the important features of the latest release of
Java, officially called <a id="I_indexterm_id556932" class="indexterm"/><a id="I_indexterm_id556939" class="indexterm"/><a id="I_indexterm_id556949" class="indexterm"/><a id="I_indexterm_id556959" class="indexterm"/>Java Standard Edition (SE) 7, JDK 1.7. Sun (Java’s keeper
before Oracle) has changed the naming scheme many times over the years.
Sun coined the term <span class="emphasis"><em>Java 2</em></span> to cover the major new
features introduced in Java version 1.2 and dropped the term
<span class="emphasis"><em>JDK</em></span> in favor of <span class="emphasis"><em>SDK</em></span>. With the
sixth release, Sun skipped from Java version 1.4 to Java 5.0, but
reprieved the term JDK and kept its numbering convention there. After
that, we had Java 6 and now we reach Java 7.</p><p>This release of Java reflects a mature language with relatively few
syntactic changes but significant updates to APIs and libraries. We’ve
tried to capture these new features and update every example in this book
to reflect not only the current Java practice, but style as well.</p><div class="sect2" title="New in This Edition (Java 6 and 7)"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="learnjava3-PREFACE-2-SECT-1.1"/>New in This Edition (Java 6 and 7)</h2></div></div></div><p>This edition of the book has been significantly reworked to be as
complete and up-to-date as possible. It incorporates changes from both
the Java 6 and Java 7 releases that occurred since the last edition of
this book. New topics in this edition include:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist"><li class="listitem"><p>New language features, including type inference in generics
and improved exception handling and automatic resource management
syntax</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>New concurrency utilities including the Fork-Join
framework</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The new NIO Files API, which allows new types of filesystem
access to be implemented in Java</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>New versions of the Java Servlets (3.0) and web services APIs,
including use of the new annotations-based deployment and built-in
web service container</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>New version of JAXB (2.2) Java XML Binding, including use of
the new annotations for binding Java to XML</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Improved Swing desktop integration and enhancements to key
Swing components such as JTable</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Updated examples and analysis throughout the book</p></li></ul></div></div></div></body></html>