Java 6 [Java 1.6 / Mustang] enhancements over Java 5

Java 6 : Enhancements over Java 5

In short, improvements in Java 6 are in following areas :

• Annotations
• Web services support
• JDBC 4.0

Java 6 : New features

• Pluggable Annotation Processing API (JSR 269)
• Common Annotations (JSR 250)

• Java API for XML Based Web Services - 2.0 (JSR 224)
• JAXB 2.0 (JSR 222)
• Web Services Metadata (JSR 181)
• Streaming API for XML (JSR 173)
• XML Digital Signature (JSR 105)

• JDBC 4.0 (JSR 221)

• Java Class File Specification Update (JSR 202)
• Java Compiler API (JSR 199)
• Scripting in the Java Platform (JSR 223)