Java SE 7 Documentation

The java.nio.file package and its related package, java.nio.file.attribute, provide comprehensive support for file I/O and for accessing the file system.

See File I/O (featuring NIO 2.0) in the Java Tutorials.

Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) is a wire protocol developed to support stream connections over InfiniBand fabric.

For more information, see Understanding the Sockets Direct Protocol a trail in the Java Tutorials.

Rich Internet Applications can be developed and deployed as applets or Java Web Start applications. The next generation Java Plug-in introduced in Java SE 6 update 10 provides powerful capabilities to applets.

Java SE 7 introduces the following language enhancements:

• Binary Literals
• Underscores in Numeric Literals
• Strings in switch Statements
• Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation
• Improved Compiler Warnings and Errors When Using Non-Reifiable Formal Parameters with Varargs Methods
• The try-with-resources Statement
• Catching Multiple Exception Types and Rethrowing Exceptions with Improved Type Checking

JDBC 4.1 introduces the following features:

• The ability to use a try-with-resources statement to automatically close resources of type Connection, ResultSet, and Statement
• RowSet 1.1: The introduction of the RowSetFactory interface and the RowSetProvider class, which enable you to create all types of row sets supported by your JDBC driver.

Java SE 7 introduces a new JVM instruction that simplifies the implementation of dynamically typed programming languages on the JVM. See Java Virtual Machine Support for Non-Java Languages for more information.