First-generation languages are binary machine languages. ... COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, C/C++ and Java. Many languages are actually a mix of both third- and fourth-generation languages.

This installment in the Essential Java language features tour addresses the first four small language features from that list — try-with-resources, switch-on-string, multi-catch, and final re-throw.

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax ...