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    The document summarizes new features in Java 5 including generics, auto-boxing/unboxing, and enhanced for-each loops. It notes that the AP Java exam will likely adopt generics and auto-boxing/unboxing in 2007, may adopt for-each loops, and will probably not include Scanner or variable argument methods. Examples of using each new feature are provided.

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    Java 5 Tiger

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    Java 5 – Tiger

    • Short history.
    • Where AP is headed: likely features that
    will end up in the subset.
    • Other fun features to use if you choose

    Java 5.0
    Short History

    • Java 1.1 to 1.2 had some language


    changes
    • From 1.2 until Java 5, essentially no
    language feature changes – just additions
    to the APIs
    • Java 5 – Tiger (originally called 1.5 during
    beta) now has many additional language
    features
    • AP will adopt a couple

    Java 5.0
    Generics
    • Like “templates” in C++
    • Pedagogically, this is more sound. Let’s declare to the
    compiler upfront what we’re going to put in – if a student
    doesn’t, she’ll get a compiler error. The old way, the runtime
    environment would discover that someone didn’t put the
    right thing in/out and throw a run-time exception – less
    desirable – harder for students. Also, this is now self-
    documenting.

    Realize that one could put a


    ArrayList<Fish> list = Fish or any subclass of Fish
    new ArrayList<Fish>(); into this list. One could also
    list.add( new Fish(…) ); choose to put an interface
    or abstract class type within
    Fish f = list.get(0); the <>

    Java 5.0
    Auto-Boxing/Unboxing

    • Automatically put primitives into Wrapper


    classes – and go other way as well. Works for
    all 8 primitive types and their respective
    Wrapper class.
    Integer intObj = 1;
    int x = intObj;

    Yes! Nice!

    Java 5.0
    int answer = intObj + x;
    More generic Generics examples
    (sorry)

    Let’s keep track of how many of each color crayon


    we have…
    Map<String, Integer> crayons =
    new TreeMap<String, Integer>();
    crayons.put(“red”, 1);
    crayons.put(“blue”, 2);
    …
    int count = crayons.get("blue");
    count++;

    Java 5.0
    crayons.put("blue", count);
    Your Turn!
    Declare a structure that would allow you to keep a list of
    teacher names (we’d eventually like to print them in
    alpha) who have a particular color crayon(we’d like the
    crayon colors to also come out in alpha order)
    Red crayon  Don, Sharon, Joe, Mike
    Blue crayon  Kent, Doug, Dan, Carol
    Green crayon  Harlie, Jennifer, Gerard
    Yellow crayon  Mark, Sam, Kevin, Norm
    Orange crayon  Shirley, Regina, Dave, Jon
    (you have 10 minutes – go try – get all the names in and
    then print)

    Java 5.0
    Here’s one way
    Map<String, Set<String>> crayons =
    new TreeMap<String, Set<String>>();
    Set s = new TreeSet();
    s.add("Don");
    s.add("Sharon");
    s.add("Joe");
    s.add("Mike");
    crayons.put("red",s);

    s = new TreeSet();
    s.add("Kent");
    s.add("Doug");
    s.add("Dan");
    s.add("Carol");
    crayons.put("blue",s);

    Java 5.0
    System.out.println(crayons);
    What will AP do?
    • So, AP will probably adopt Generics and
    Auto-boxing/unboxing for the ’07 exam
    – No official word yet – but it’s almost for sure
    • May or may not adopt the “For each” loop
    – Leads to cleaner questions – so probably

    Java 5.0
    “For Each” loop

    Fish[] fishes = …;
    for (Fish f : fishes)
    f.act();

    Pros: no OBOB’s – cleaner


    Cons: can’t skip 1st, last, increment
    some index, delete an element

    Java 5.0
    more For Each…

    ArrayList<Fish> fishList = …;
    for (Fish f : fishList)
    f.act();

    Java 5.0
    more For Each…

    int[] nums = {1,2,3,4,5};


    for (int x : nums)
    System.out.println(x);

    Java 5.0
    more For Each…
    public static void setsAreIterable() {
    Set<Integer> s =
    new TreeSet<Integer>();
    s.add(1);
    s.add(2);
    s.add(3);
    for (int x : s)
    System.out.println( x );
    }

    Java 5.0
    more For Each…

    • In general, any class that implements


    Iterable will allow you to use the “For
    Each” loop

    Java 5.0
    AP Probably Won’t adopt…

    • Scanner
    • Variable number of parameters

    Java 5.0
    Scanner
    // from console
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.print("How old are you?");
    int age = in.nextInt();

    // from file
    String fileName = . . .;
    Scanner file = new Scanner(new File(fileName));

    Easy – no more third-party packages necessary

    Java 5.0
    Variable number of parameters

    public static double average(double... values)


    {
    assert values.length > 0;
    double sum = 0;
    for (double v : values)
    sum += v;
    return sum / values.length;
    }

    Java 5.0
    For more…

    • See apcentral.collegeboard.com

    Java 5.0

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