What is Project Coin (JSR 334)?
Created Jun 27, 2012
The name "Project Coin" refers to a number of small changes to the Java language that were included in JDK 7. Those modifications were intended to simplify day-to-day programming tasks. Java developers submitted 70 proposed changes to Project Coin; the following five were included in Java 7:
- Strings in switch
- Binary integral literals and underscores in numeric literals
- Multi-catch and more precise rethrow
- Improved type inference for generic instance creation (diamond) try-with-resources statement
- Simplified varargs method invocation
Two other suggested changes -- collections support and unsigned literals -- were deferred for JDK8.
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Further Reading
DevX article on Project Coin