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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/30/j2se_15_release/

New desktop Java - come and get it

J2SE hits 1.5

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk)

Posted in Developer, 30th September 2004 18:08 GMT

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Sun has made the latest version of Java 2 Standard Edition available, the first new code since 1.4.2 last July and the biggest overhaul since the release of 1.4 over two years ago.

The 'Tiger' release, 5.0, boasts a raft of enhancements to both platform and language. Improvements for programmers include Collections, metadata, and C language features such as enums and variable arguments. It's hard to imagine that Java has reached its tenth year and only just got the equivalent of the C language's va_arg, but there you go.

The platform side has new systems management and profiling APIs and OpenGL support, and a new look and feel, called Ocean. The "native" look and feel has been spruced up to make it look more er, native [1]. Sun claims VM start-up time has been improved too.

Off you go [2], then. ®

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