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Enums, Autoboxing, and Annotations

t this point in the book, you have learned many features of the Java language. Most of these features are part of the original language specification. The language itself has evolved substantially over last several years. Many new features have been added to the language throughout the various versions of Java SE. Java SE 6 and some of the releases prior to J2SE 5.0 did not add anything new to the language. We studied some of these features, such as enhanced for loops and varargs, in the previous chapters. ...

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