Dear Java lovers,
it seems SUN has finally sprung a 1.5 beta release which we can download.
From a quick test it doesn't work with the STARJAVA development system,
but will run up our pre-built applications.
I'm guessing that the reason the development system is broken is related
to the fact that they've finally implemented jar file extension classpaths
in javac. I'll have a longer look at this when time permits.
It also seems to have badly broken HDX, looks like the Node interface may
have some new methods Norman.
As we're not going to target this for quite a while yet so no need to rush
at any of these, I'd say, just enjoy the new funky interface etc.
One further point (which is actually why I felt the need to send this
message), webstart in now part of the release, not just an accompaniment,
so if you install 1.5 it will edit your ~/.mailcap. So watch out!
Cheers,
Peter.
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