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by Ben Hosking.
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I found two articles summarising the new features in Java 1.5. This is decent document and it briefly explains what they all are and what they do. It's a very good introduction to the Java 5 features and are probably useful for people who are just about to start learning for their SCJP 5 Exam (CX-310-055) This list of the topics is of the information in the articles
With the exception of Generics all the new features make programming in Java easier and I think there are some really good features. You wonder why they didn't add them in before.
I really like the Enhanced for Loop, it makes looping through collections much easier and for most scenarios brings about the death of the iterator.
Static imports are a bit of a weird one, I don't think I have ever really written a class where I used a lot of Static classes, to the extent I wished I could import a class to save me typing its name. I actually think its a bit confusing for people looking at code with static imports because it's not obvious you are calling a method on a static class. I'm not a big fan of this one.
Variable-Length arguments (var args) I like this, the ability to have a number of variables of the same type.
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