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.

Comments

hope swing is faster now / I prefer Ruby over Java

[raistlinthegreat]

I hope that Swing is faster now under linux. I played with netbeans and jedit and although there are really good they are not very fast on linux. on a slower windows PC jedit stated much faster than on my linux box.
a few days ago I played a little with Ruby (the coolest language available IMHO) and Gtk+. although the bindings are not yet finished they work very well under Linux and this is much faster than Java/Swing.
Maybe Ruby is the future. At least I hope so. If Ruby gets more stable modules Ruby can be the Number One OOP language. It is cleaner than Perl or Java, the Programms are shorter, the Language is more intuitive and.... and.... and. This is only my humble opinion. See for yourself if you like ruby. check out http://www.ruby-lang.org

Re:Yah, will this be stable on Linux?

[utdpenguin]

Ha! Wish I still had moderator points. That is funny. Even to this linux of death user.

Re:My pet peeve.

[Malcontent]

"most small inventors .."

I hardly consider kodak a small inventor.