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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Milling Project Coin [JEP 213]

Project Coin was a feature set of minor changes introduced in Java 7. These changes are listed as follows:

  • Strings in switch statements
  • Binary integral literals
  • Using underscores in numeric literals
  • Implementing multi-catch
  • Allowing for more precise re-throwing of exceptions
  • Generic instance creation improvements
  • Addition of the try-with-resources statement
  • Improvements to invoking varargs methods

Detailed information can be found in the following Oracle presentation: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/project-coin-428201.pdf.

JEP 213 focused on improvements to Project Coin's enhancements. There were five such enhancements, each detailed as follows.

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