Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Java SDK 1.5 'Tiger' Beta Finally Released

Posted by simoniker on from the mmm-syntactic-sugar dept.

kingkola writes "Finally, after about two years of development, the Beta for Java SDK 1.5, aka Tiger, has been released. Features added in this edition include generics support, autoboxing of primitives, syntactic sugar for loops, enumerated types, variable arguments, sharing of memory between multiple VMs and a bunch of other bugfixes, enchancements, etc."

3 of 602 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Too little, too late by kinga · · Score: 5, Funny


    Grennis: C# innovated!
    Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  2. "enchancements" by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me who loves that typo?

    --
    To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
  3. Re:New features - Half way there by (void*)cheerio · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm crossing my fingers...And I must say, I'm quite excited about future possibilities...

    Just think:

    Java 1.6 : Overloadable operators
    Java 1.7 : Pointers
    Java 1.7.1 : Void Pointers

    The prospect of the combination of overloadable operators and pointers? Oh baby baby baby!