Java2 SDK v. 1.4 Released

pangloss writes: "Yay: XML, built-in Perl-ish regex, jdbc 3.0, asserts, IPv6, lots of other goodies. Release notes and incompatibilities. And I think this means I can use my wheel-mouse in NetBeans without that extra module ;) Download it here." WilsonSD adds: "There are many cool new features including a New I/O package, an Assert Facility and enhanced performance." Some other random Java notes: O'Reilly has an essay about why you won't see any open source J2EE implementations, and Kodak has filed a patent-infringement claim against Sun regarding Java.

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Re:Genericity?

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Java will support parametised types, not templates. C++'s solution is a hack, and most people know that. True language (and VM) support for parametised types will not involve any binary bloat. In a way you can think of it as having a "object type" attribute and doing an "instanceof" to check that the type is right.