{"id":20,"date":"2004-07-03T23:58:42","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/j2se5-getting-ready-for-the-tiger-part-i\/"},"modified":"2004-07-03T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T05:58:42","slug":"j2se5-getting-ready-for-the-tiger-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/j2se5-getting-ready-for-the-tiger-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"J2SE5: Getting ready for the Tiger (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) version 1.5 (&#8220;Tiger&#8221;) is the next major revision to the Java platform and language; it is currently slated to contain 15 component JSRs with nearly 100 other significant updates developed through the Java Community Process (JCP).<br \/>\n<b>New features<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metadata&#8211;Annotation along side the classes, metadata within a class to generate helper files, documentation, deployment descriptors and even java code!<\/li>\n<li>Generic Types&#8211; The Collection API can now hold non-<i>Object<\/i> objects.Anybody remembers templates in MFC?<\/li>\n<li>Autoboxing and Auto-Unboxing of Primitive Types&#8211;Automatic conversion of primitive types to their object counterparts. Less coding!<\/li>\n<li>Enumerated Types&#8211;public enum Fruit { mango, apple, orange }; \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Static Import&#8211;Import static constants without inheriting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rest of the features in <a href=\"\/mt\/archives\/000015.html\">Part II<\/a> of this entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) version 1.5 (&#8220;Tiger&#8221;) is the next major revision to the Java platform and language; it is currently slated to contain 15 component JSRs with nearly 100 other significant updates developed through the Java Community Process (JCP). New features: Metadata&#8211;Annotation along side the classes, metadata within a class to generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}