New Library Features[1]

• Formatter

• • An interpreter for printf-style format strings

• Scanner

• • convert text into primitives or Strings

• Reflection

• • Support for new language features ; generics, enums, annotations, etc

• Instrumentation

• Monitoring and Management

• • management API for the JVM
  • management API for the logging facility
  • JMX instrumentation of the Java virtual machine
  • SNMP instrumentation