Java 6

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Java 6

• CSE301
• University of Sunderland
• Harry R. Erwin, PhD

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List of Changes (from Sun Site)

• Collections Framework
• Deployment (Java Web Start and Java Plug-in)
• Drag and Drop
• Instrumentation
• Internationalization Support
• I/O Support
• JAR (Java Archive Files) - Java Web Start
• Java DB 10.2 JDBC4
• JMX (Java Management Extensions)
• JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture)
• JVM TI (Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface)

• lang and util Packages
• Monitoring and Management for the Java Platform
• JConsole is Officially Supported in Java SE 6
• Networking Features
• Performance
• Reflection
• RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
• Scripting
• Security
• Serialization of Objects
• Swing
• VM (Java Virtual Machine)

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Collections Framework

• Deque (double ended queue)
• BlockingDeque (wait if empty)
• NavigableSet
• NavigableMap
• ConcurrentNavigableMap
• Concrete implementations to support these.

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I/O Support

• New Console class provided.
• New File methods.
• Methods to set/query file permissions.

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Scripting

• Now supports scripting languages
• Mozilla RhinoJavaScript for Java is included.

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Swing

• Miscellaneous bug fixes
• Drag and Drop improved
• SwingWorker to help create multithreaded Swing
  applications
• Improved printing
• GroupLayout
• JTable sorting and filtering