Differences between Java5 and Java6

JAVA-5	JAVA-6
Also known as  Tiger	Also known as  Mustang
<! Generics—Provides compile-time type safety for collections and eliminates the need for casting every time you get an object out of Collections. <! Enhanced For loop—Eliminates error-proneness of iterators. <!-Autoboxing/unboxing—Eliminates need of manual conversion between primitive types (such as double) and wrapper types (such as Double). <! Typesafe enums—Provides all benefits of the Typesafe enum pattern. <! Static import—Eliminates the need for using class names prior to using the static member variables of other classes. This will make the code a bit neater. <! Metadata—Allows  programmers to avoid writing boiler plate code and gives the opportunity for declarative programming. JSR (14,175)	<! 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) <!-Java Class File Specification Update (JSR 202) <!-Java Compiler API (JSR 199) <!-JDBC 4.0 (JSR 221) <!-Scripting in the Java Platform (JSR 223) <