Java 5 - foojay

The information below presents data on Java 5, made available by Marc R. Hoffmann, from javaalmanac.io, provided under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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Java 5

version: 5 Release date: 2004-09-30 EOL date: 2015-04-15 bytecode: 49.0

Documentation: vm , lang , api , notes

Distro	TCK ¹	Vendor	License	Platforms
Java SE Development Kit 5		Oracle	Commercial	linux-x86 linux-x64 solaris-sparc solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x86 solaris-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64

Technology Compatibility Kit

New Features

Language

Generics ( JSR 14 )
Annotations ( JSR 175 )
Autoboxing ( JSR 201 )
Enums ( JSR 201 )
For-each Loops ( JSR 201 )
Static Imports ( JSR 201 )
Var Args ( JSR 201 )

API

Concurrency Utilities (java.util.concurrent) ( JSR 166 )

New APIs

Compare to Java:

base: version: 5 build 1.5.0_22

target: version: 1.4 build 1.4.2_30