Milling Project Coin [JEP 213]

Project Coin was a feature set of minor changes introduced in Java 7. These changes are listed as follows:

• Strings in switch statements
• Binary integral literals
• Using underscores in numeric literals
• Implementing multi-catch
• Allowing for more precise re-throwing of exceptions
• Generic instance creation improvements
• Addition of the try-with-resources statement
• Improvements to invoking varargs methods

Detailed information can be found in the following Oracle presentation: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/project-coin-428201.pdf.

JEP 213 focused on improvements to Project Coin's enhancements. There were five such enhancements, each detailed as follows.