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Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5

Posted by michael on from the milk-and-sugar dept.

wap writes "The language/VM/religion that everyone loves to hate is now serving another cup: Java 1.5 is ready for download. The new features of 1.5 have been discussed here before. I, for one, welcome our new virtual machine overlord. I have been using the release candidate, and startup times are noticeably faster, as is overall performance, and the new features like typesafe collections and static imports are great to have. Let the Java flames begin!"

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  1. My question is... by beware+of+the+robot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When is the selv-aware Java version due?

  2. Re:Java 5 or 1.5? by pjt33 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Emacs?

  3. Re:Free GMail Accounts! by virtualone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ooops! GMAIL is semi-slashdotted. (but who knows if this was relly caused by this comment) Server Error Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

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  4. Java's nice and all by goofyheadedpunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...yes, but will it parse a hobo?

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  5. Re:Stability/memory leaks by pokeyburro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you guys never heard of scope?!

    This is SlashDot. Mouthwash is irrelevant.

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  6. Re:oh great by Destoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But Java is a dance.

    Rumba, Samba, Java... I'm sure you can think of others.

    It makes much more sense when you look at it that way. A slow, heavy, memory hungry dance..

    Actually, it's just a silly french dance, usually on a musette.

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