Sneak Peak at Java's New Makeover

Posted by chrisd on Wednesday February 5, 2003 @07:38PM from the call-it-chai dept.

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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Also Concurrency/Memory/Threads/Isolation by LarryRiedel · 2003-02-05 20:07 · Score: 4, Informative

There are some other interesting changes coming to provide a more coherent memory model, vastly improved concurrency support, and intra-JVM application isolation. Java is getting much better at providing access to the capabilities of the underlying OS, and the JVM working more like a little multi-process OS itself...

Larry