Sun Microsystems has released a Beta 2 version of its Java Standard Edition 6, formerly known under the codename Project Mustang. Java SE 6 is the runtime environment that allows Java applications to run on desktop computers. A first beta was released last February and the application has since received a series of bug fixes, prompting the company to urge developers and enterprise users to start testing their applications on the forthcoming platform.
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Last edited by El Franco on 21 Jun 2006 - 17:09
I'm easily amused
It's trying to hit a moving target while standing on a wobbling platform!
Mr. Jensen, you crack me up.
The choice of words is a bit strange, it somehow suggests that hose bugs were unsuspected and they are scrambling to contain a problem or something. While in fact this is just the new way of working at Sun. New releases of a future Java version will be continuously made available (on a weekly basis in fact) making it possible to test your apps before a final version comes out.
The problem with official betas is that the time between discovery and resolution of bugs can still take quite some time resulting either in a possibly large number of betas or ,what normally happens, the decision to just take a version and make it official. They hope that with the weekly builds they can assure that more bugs will be fixed before the final release and I've read they're even thinking about not doing any betas at all anymore in the future, just weeklies.
is it transperancy in java? As far as i know java did not really supprted transperancy to JFrame (and Frame) objects..(there was a VERY clumsy hack to take a screen shot underneeth of application to imulate transperancy but no real API for that...) did they added it in Java 6?
http://download.java.net/download/jdk6/bin...15_jun_2006.jar
Last edited by sala on 22 Jun 2006 - 05:12
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