Java Examples

Java Versions and Features

Version	Date	JEPs	Features
Java 1.0	Jan 1996		OS Independant Programming language, Java Virtual Machine
J2SE 5.0	Sep 2004		Enhanced For Loop, Generics, Enums, Autoboxing
Java SE 6	Dec 2006		Scripting Language Support, Improvements to Web Services
Java SE 7	Jul 2011		Project Coin (Diamond Operator, Strings in Switch), NIO.2
Java SE 8 LTS	Mar 2014	56	Functional Programming, Lambda & Streams, Multiple Inheritance
Java SE 9	Sep 2017	91	Modularization - Java Platform Module System
Java SE 10	Mar 2018	12	Local Variable Type Inference, List / Set / Map - CopyOf
Java SE 11 LTS	Sep 2018	17	New HTTP Client API, Nest-based access control, Remove JavaFX
Java SE 12	Mar 2019	8	Switch Expressions (Preview)
Java SE 13	Sep 2019	5	Text Blocks (Preview)
Java SE 14	Mar 2020	16	Switch Expressions (Preview in 12 and 13), Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview)
Java SE 15	Sep 2020	14	Text Blocks (Preview in 13), Sealed Classes (Preview), Hidden Classes
Java SE 16	Mar 2021	17	Record Classes (Preview in 14, 15), Pattern Matching for instanceof, Sealed Classes
Java SE 17 LTS	Sep 2021	14	Sealed Classes, Pattern Matching for switch (Preview), Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators
Java SE 18	Mar 2022	9	UTF-8 by default, Simple Web Server, Vector API (Second Incubator)
Java SE 19	Sep 2022	7	Virtual Threads (Preview), Pattern Matching for switch (Third Preview)
Java SE 20	Mar 2023	6	Scoped Values (Incubator), Virtual Threads (Second Preview)
Java SE 21 LTS	Sep 2023	15	Record Patterns, Unnamed Patterns and Variables, String Templates (Preview)
Java SE 22	Mar 2024		Pattern Matching (Primitives), Stream Gatherers, Vector API
Java SE 23	Sep 2024	12	Pattern Match (Primitives), Module Import, Simplified Main, Stream Gatherers, Vector API

Java 23 Features

Features

Source: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/23/

This project is currently a work in progress. All key examples from Java versions 5 through 23 are expected to be completed by the first week of October 2024.