Neuerungen in der Java Programming Language
Binary Literals
Strings in switch Statements
The try-with-resources Statement
Catching Multiple Exception Types and Rethrowing Exceptions with Improved Type Checking
Underscores in Numeric Literals
Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation
Improved Compiler Warnings and Errors When Using Non-Reifiable Formal Parameters with Varargs Methods
#Neuerungen in der Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Java Virtual Machine Support for Non-Java Languages
Garbage-First Collector
Java HotSpot Virtual Machine Performance Enhancements
#Neuerungen in den Java-Klassen
Swing
IO
Networking
Security
Concurrency Utilities
Rich Internet Applications (RIA)/Deployment
Java 2D
Java XML - JAXP, JAXB, and JAX-WS
Internationalization
Multithreaded Custom Class Loaders in Java SE 7
JDBC