Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5

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!"

Comments

Re:I love the hate

[IgnoramusMaximus]

I'd love to see a code example for that.

You clearly do not follow what I was saying. I was being funny when I mentioned "flipping a bit". What I was really referring to is the object-oriented-everything-paradigm libraries that make Java such a dog for all practical purposes. Speaking of your example, I am sure that in most OO-zealot written apps this is more like (in my funky pseudo-code):

byte = new container;
for(int b=0; b<8; b++) byte.add(massive-other-container-monster.getBit()) ;
iterator(byte) i;
for(int j=0; j<= <indexToFlip>; j++, i.next());
i.objectPointedTo->value = 1-i.objectPointedTo->value;

Or some such.