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Java 1.4.2 Released

Posted by michael on from the half-and-half-2.0-coming-soon dept.

peterwilm writes "Sun released Java 1.4.2 today. It includes many enhancements and changes among them the native look&feel for Win XP and GTK 2.0 as well as support for Itanium 2."

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  1. startup time improvements by brlewis · · Score: 4, Informative
    From my POV, this looks like the most significant change:
    Optimizations have been made to the core libraries to reduce startup time. For a small command line application, startup time has been reduced by roughly thirty percent; for a small Swing application, by fifteen to twenty percent.
    1. Re:startup time improvements by melete · · Score: 5, Informative


      Yeah, that's a HUGE improvement. But playing with the beta, the biggest speed enhancement seems to be in the networking code -- it's a lot cleaner, faster, and not nearly as buggy as 1.4.1

    2. Re:startup time improvements by BenTels0 · · Score: 2, Informative

      I just ran through some of the demoes -- I like! Much faster on loading.

  2. Re:How fast is java? by LoneRanger · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the Swing release notes dude. They support GTK theming as long as it uses a certain GTK engine. They are attempting to support all GTK engines, but evidently it's not easy.

  3. Re:Yesterday by Adhoc · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a lot of documentation built into eclipse. Look under Help -> Help Contents. There are developer guides and API references for most of elcipse/swt. Also, check Eclipse Articles on the eclipse website for some more tutorials and guides.

  4. Re:Is anyone else having problems to connect? by jmertic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Same here. After it gets your personal info, it trys to redirect to a server that isn't there. In IE, it leaves that URL in the address bar. Remove the port info and you can keep going.

  5. Re:What version is that? by calennert · · Score: 4, Informative

    J2SE, v.1.4.2 = Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4.2

  6. Re:How fast is java? by BenTels0 · · Score: 2, Informative
    warning -- it looks like gtk2, not gnome, gtk2.

    Err -- it's not supposed to look like Gnome. GTK = GIMP Tool Kit, not Gnome Tool Kit.

  7. Re:Yesterday by kashmirzoso · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://dev.eclipse.org/help21/index.jsp

  8. Re:Is anyone else having problems to connect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    You gave it your personal info???

    You do know there was a link to skip that and go straight to download, don't you?

  9. Re:Garbage Collection and Java NIO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This helps explain some of the issues:
    http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/b ugParade/ bugs/4525842.html

  10. Re:Puzzling Download Size by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    1.4.0 and 1.4.1 had their JREs split up into US English only and International versions. The sizes you give for the older versions are the US English only and thus smaller version.

    With 1.4.2 they seem to only offer the international version now, hence the increase.