• Java 5 was released during September 2004.
• It is also known as Tiger, JDK 1.5 and J2SE 5.0.
• With this release changes were made to the language ...
• ... that will affect the way in which we write Java programs.
• Generic Collection classes has received the most publicity.
• But there is much more that is new in Java 5.
• This talk looks at the language changes.