Java SE 6 Features and Enhancements | Oracle (original) (raw)

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client/2d

ImageIO: GIF writer

4339415

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client/2d

Native Text Rendering Parity

4726365

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client/2d

Improved hardware acceleration on Windows

5104393

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client/2d

Single-threaded rendering for OpenGL pipelines

6219284

api

client/awt

Pop-up splash screen at beginning of Java startup

4247839

api

client/awt

Java applications can access desktop applications

6255196

api

client/awt

Improved modal dialogs

4080029

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client/awt

XAWT is the default Toolkit on Solaris

5049146

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client/awt

Windows system-tray support

4310333

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client/awt

Better support for input in non-English locales

4360364

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client/awt

Live resizing

6199167

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client/deploy

Improved application deployment across browsers

6329487

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client/deploy

Allow JAR files to be shared across installed JREs

6271065

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client/deploy

Improved user experience in JRE/JDK installer

5079209

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client/deploy

Improved security

6222485

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client/deploy

Direct execution of JAR files on Linux

6211008

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client/deploy

Improved desktop integration in Java Web Start

4625362

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client/deploy

Improved IFTW installer

6198632

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client/deploy

Improved startup & footprint for plugin/webstart

6329480

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client/deploy

Mozilla Firefox browser support

6216340

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client/deploy

Default Java on Linux

6211006

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client/deploy

Improved user experience in Java Plug-in and Java Web Start

6205064

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client/deploy

Unified download engine

4802551

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client/deploy

Support Mozilla and Firefox family browsers.

6216340

api

client/dnd

A way to avoid hangs on retrieval of clipboard data

4818143

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client/i18n

Support for important locales

4324505

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client/i18n

Japanese calendar

4609228

api

client/i18n

Resource bundle enhancements

5102289

api

client/i18n

Normalizer API

4221795

api

client/i18n

Pluggable locales: Pluggability for break iterators

4052440

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client/i18n

Pluggable locales: Pluggability for locale names, formatters, and collators

4052440

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client/l10n

Chinese localization for JDK tools

6209342

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client/swing

GTK Native L&F Fidelity

6185456

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client/swing

Through-the-stack: Reduced footprint / startup time

6329480

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client/swing

Native look & feel fidelity

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client/swing

Avalon Look-and-Feel

6329475

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client/swing

JTable sorting, filtering, and highlighting

4747079

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client/swing

JTabbedPane: Tabs as Components

4499556

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client/swing

Windows native L&F fidelity

5106661

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client/swing

SwingWorker

4681682

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client/swing

Improve Drag & Drop features for Swing Components

4468566

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client/swing

Extend SpringLayout

4726194

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client/swing

Text Document Printing

4791649

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client/swing

Improved Painting Performance (fix grey boxes)

4967886

jsr

core/core

JSR 223: Scripting for the Java Platform

6249843

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core/debug

Multiple Simultaneous Agents

4772582

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core/debug

Added Heap Capabilities to JPDA

4914266

api

core/debug

Attach-on-demand

6173612

api

core/debug

JVMPI and JVMDI have been removed.

4914266

api

core/jndi

Read-timeout specification for LDAP operations

6176036

api

core/libs

Array Reallocation API

4655503

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core/libs

BigDecimal optimizations for specjbb++

api

core/libs

Floating point: Add IEEE 754 recommended functions to java.lang.{{,Strict}Math}

4406429

api

core/libs

Standard service-provider API (java.util.Service)

4640520

api

core/libs

Collections and Concurrency Updates

6268386

api

core/libs

IO Enhancement: Password Prompting

4050435

api

core/libs

IO Enhancement: File Attributes

6216563

api

core/libs

IO Enhancement: Method for Discovering Free Disk Space

4057701

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core/libs

IO Enhancement: Long pathnames on Windows

4403166

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core/libs

Low-level Java compiler API for IDEs

4813736

jsr

core/libs

JSR 202: Java Class File Specification Update

4639391

jsr

core/libs

JSR 199: Java compiler API

4164450

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core/libs

Improved perceived footprint

6280693

api

core/libs

Deques

6192552

api

core/libs

Navigable Maps and Sets

4155650

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core/libs

BitSet Updates

4963875, 4979017, 4979028, 4979031, 5030267, 6222207, 6404711

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core/libs

Performance Improvements when compiling using network file systems

4770745

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core/m&m

Improved diagnosability of OutOfMemoryError

6173515

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core/m&m

Generic annotations for MBean descriptor contents

6221321

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core/m&m

Support for java.util.concurrent locks in the lock related facility

5086470

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core/m&m

jconsole is more user-friendly

6174397

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core/m&m

Small-scale improvements to JMX Monitor API

6222961

api

core/m&m

descriptors added to all types of MBean

6204469

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core/m&m

MXBeans added to JMX

6175517

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core/net

Light-weight HTTP server

6270015

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core/net

Internationalized resource identifiers

5085902

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core/net

Default CookieManager implementation

6244040

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core/net

SPNEGO HTTP authentication

6260531

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core/net

International domain names

4737170

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core/net

Programmatic access to network parameters

4691932

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core/sec

Native platform GSS integration

6202035, 6345202

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core/sec

SPNEGO in Java GSS

6239635

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core/sec

MS CAPI Keystore provider

6318171

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core/sec

Better support for NSS keystore

6273877

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core/sec

Improved Policy performance

5037004

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core/sec

JSR 268: Java Smart Card I/O API

6239117

jsr

core/sec

JSR 105: XML DSig

4635230

api

core/sec

Enhance certificate APIs

4635060

jsr

core/tools

JSR 269: Standard pluggabilty API for annotation processors (APT)

6222574

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core/tools

javac: Support for split verification

6227862, 6227862

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core/tools

javac: Implement JSR 175's java.lang.SuppressWarnings

4986256

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core/tools

Class-path wildcards

6268383

jsr

ee/ee

JSR 250: Common annotations

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ee/jdbc

Extended JDBC-ODBC bridge to enable JDBC 4.0 EoD features

6290312

jsr

ee/jdbc

JSR 221: JDBC 4.0

6290312

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ee/xml

JAXP 1.4

JSR 206: Java API for XML Processing

6317994

jsr

ee/xml

Support for the Web Services stack

JSR 222: JAXB 2.0
JSR 224: JAX-RPC 2.0
JSR 173: STAX
JSR 181: Web Services Metadata

api

ee/xml

JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF)

6254474

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vm/compilers

Improved performance of compiled code

5079711, 6206844, 6239807, 4850474,
5003419, 5004907, 5101346, 6190413, 6191063,
6196383, 6196722, 6211497, 6232485, 6233627, 6245809,
6251002, 6262235,

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vm/c1

Linear scan register allocator for C1

6320351

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vm/c2

Improved loop optimization

5073662, 5074608, 5091921, 6260293

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vm/c2

Escape analysis

6339956

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vm/c2

Lock coarsening

6245809

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vm/gc

CMS: Parallelize concurrent marking

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vm/gc

Parallel compaction

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vm/runtime

Improve uncontended synchronization performance

imp

vm/runtime

Improved performance of contended synchronization operations

imp

vm/runtime

Faster format checker/class-file parser

imp

vm/runtime

Improved startup time

6179212

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vm/runtime

Improved runtime performance

imp

vm/runtime

Improved JNI performance

5086424

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vm/runtime

Class circularity detection

4699981

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vm/runtime

DTrace support in the VM