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December 06, 2005

"Experiences with the New Java 5 Language Features" Article Available

Posted: 2005-12-06 22:15:00

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Jess Garms and Tim Hanson have written an article entitled "Experiences with the New Java 5 Language Features". It describes their experiences writing a Java 5 compiler using Java 5. It covers the benefits, drawbacks, implications and uses of the various new Java 5 features, including the enhanced for loop, annotations, enumerations, varargs, covariant returns, generics, and more.