JDK 7 Features

JDK 7 Features

Features are listed in order, more or less, from lowest to highest in the overall JDK  software stack.

vm	JSR 292: Support for dynamically-typed languages (InvokeDynamic)
	Strict class-file checking
lang	JSR 334: Small language enhancements (Project Coin)
core	Upgrade class-loader architecture
	Method to close a URLClassLoader
	Concurrency and collections updates (jsr166y)
i18n	Unicode 6.0
	Locale enhancement
	Separate user locale and user-interface locale
ionet	JSR 203: More new I/O APIs for the Java platform (NIO.2)
	NIO.2 filesystem provider for zip/jar archives
	SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
	SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol)
	Use the Windows Vista IPv6 stack
	TLS 1.2
sec	Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)
jdbc	JDBC 4.1
client	XRender pipeline for Java 2D
	Create new platform APIs for 6u10 graphics features
	Nimbus look-and-feel for Swing
	Swing JLayer component
	Gervill sound synthesizer
web	Update the XML stack
mgmt	Enhanced MBeans