Here’s the excerpt taken from Sun Java 5.0 Page.

J2SE 5.0 End of Service Life Notice

J2SE 5.0 reached its End of Service Life (EOSL) on November 3, 2009, which is the date of the final publicly available update of version 5.0 (J2SE 5.0 Update 22).

Customers interested in continuing to receive critical fixes, are encouraged to consider the following options:

• Migrate to Java SE for Business 1.5 Read More
• Migrate to the latest Java SE release Read More

For developer needs, all products that have completed the EOL transition period, including the last Java SE release of 1.5, have been moved to the Archive area.

From Java 1.4 to Java 5 was quite a transition. Now since that Java 5 has now gone in EOLS period, what’s in store for the Java developers and researchers out there? It looks like time will tell. JDK 7 is still in beta and currently available for DOWNLOAD. As of date of print, here is the link to download the latest JDK 7 from Sun. Now what will the final JDK 7 be in store for us, time will let us know. So, so long Java 5, you have been around and it’s time for you to go. Looks like those planning to take their SCJP exams now have to catch up on Java 5 concepts and work towards Java 7.

For reference sake, this is how a for loop is written in Java.

No! Not a Rope Loop. A Java Loop

int[] total = {1,2,3,4,5};
int node = 0;

for (int i=0; i<5; i++) {
node = total[i];
System.out.println(node);
}

The above would then display the result as shown below.

1
2
3
4
5

For the non-programmies, these seem like Greek to them. For programmies, these are just simple FOR LOOP methods. The above was written in reference before Java 5 has broke into this era. Now what if the start of Java 5 has brought upon a new era just like how Autoboxing was introduced in Java 5. Here's the newly enhanced loop which would also display the same result as above where we call it the FOR EACH LOOP.

int[] total = {1,2,3,4,5};
for (int i : total) {
System.out.println(i);
}

Oh my what happened to the code? Why is Java 5 that simple? Not only does this help one to code easier, the length to type out a FOR LOOP has now been cut short with this new method of writing one. What it does is pretty simple. In lame man's term, it's For each value in total I will pass them to variable 'i' to print.

Conclusion

Java 5 really does wonders to programmers of the technology in this new era. Of course SCJP exam takers should now know about this.