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Java SE 6 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the upgrade-maybe dept.

twofish writes "Sun has announced the availability of Java Standard Edition 6 final release. JSE6 now has dynamic language support. It comes pre-delivered with Netscape's Rhino, a Javascript engine, and the scripting project's home page documents many other available scripting languages, including awk, Jelly, Pnuts, Python, Ruby, and Scheme. In addition a lot of work has been done on the libraries and run-time compiler. The JIT has been improved, with better runtime analysis of program characteristics, giving notable performance improvements. Other improvements include better desktop support, improvements in Swing look and feel, Windows Vista support, and better diagnostic support (For example, profilers and debuggers can now attach to a running JVM without specifically using a debugging-capable configuration. For example, if a problem is found at run-time for a production server, a debugger can attach to it without restarting the server). Sun is also offering sixty days of free developer support for JSE 6 through their Developer Services program."

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  1. New features with specification references by nyri · · Score: 5, Informative
    The real specification of new features is available at JSR 270.

    The scripting support is specified at JSR 223.

    Here are some additional new features:
    • New database connection API, JDBC 4.0: JSR 221
    • New version of web services API, JAX-WS 2.0: JSR 224


    BTW, why isn't this on the front page? All the fussing about the possible new license was there but not the product publishment itself.
  2. Re:still waiting by Golthar · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenJDK project
    Hotspot

    Early 2007 we should see the class libs as well

  3. Re:GPL? by Golthar · · Score: 4, Informative

    See also here

    "Q:
    When will you finish open sourcing the JDK? What is the timeline?
    A:
    We expect to release a fully buildable JDK based almost completely on open-sourced code in the first half of 2007"

  4. Re:Is it any faster for client-side apps? by J.Y.Kelly · · Score: 5, Informative
    A big problem with this was that their Swing toolkit is goddamn slow

    You know, every time a java story appears here this line gets trotted out, but I'm really not sure that it's anywhere near as valid as it once might have been. From what I understand Sun have made a lot of efforts in the last few releases (1.3+) to speed up swing. I've written quite a few java applications in the last couple of years, all swing based, and none of them has caused me to have any concerns over the speed of the GUI toolkit.

    Sure swing still has some other issues issues (eg proper native look and feel), but I'm sure that a lot of the complaints people have about the toolkit's speed are either very old prejudices or stem from poor coding within the application rather than from swing itself.