Sneak Peak at Java's New Makeover

SadatChowdhury writes "Aside from templates as already reported in a past slashdot article , a little snooping around revealed the details of the following newly revealed features in the upcoming release of Java 1.5 (codenamed: Tiger) : Autoboxing , Enhanced-For-Loop, Enumerations and Static Imports . Must read for Java fans." In related news: jdkane writes "Sun Microsystems delays a much-anticipated Java specification by three months to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable. Says Ralph Galantine, group marketing manager for Java Web services at Sun: "We thought that this change was important for the industry, so that there was no conflict between J2EE 1.4 and the WS-I, "We thought it was worth taking out to the summer." It's very refreshing to hear that a big software company is looking out for the industry, instead of just their own."

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Re:Silly Java...

[The Cydonian]

This seems to be because Java didn't want to go pure OO. They wanted to keep their primitives, and yet be mostly OO, which turns out to just be a pain in the ass and gives rise to classes like Integer and Double.

Wait, LISP programmer?

But then, what the hell do I know. I'm just a Lisp junky.

Ah yes. You can always spot them from far. May the Lambda be with you, brother!

(Btw, I completely agree with you. Always a challenge to move to bracy languages from LISP)