i have been out of the loop for too long. the last version of java i used was java2. i can't just look up what is new in java6. if someone could give me the highlights of whats been happening since we first had swing i would appreciate it ;^)
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Campbell Ritchie
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Do a search for "difference java 5 java 6" and you get a few old threads: No 1, No 2,No 3.
See whether those old threads are any help to you.
oh ok. so its still java 2, just new releases. so its not like the change from java 1 to java 2?
i thought it seemed strange to go from java 2 to java 6, 7 and 8 so quickly.
Ulf Dittmer
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Um, yeah, the changes from Java 2 to Java 6 or 7 are much bigger than those from Java 1 to Java 2.
There was Java 1.0. Then there was Java 1.1. Then, for whatever reason, someone at Sun decided to call the next version "Java 2" (or "J2SE" - Java 2 Standard Edition), while the JDK had version number 1.2. There were no radical changes in the language between Java 1.1 and Java 2 (which was really version 1.2).
Then there was "J2SE version 1.3" and later 1.4. After that, they changed the numbering again, so it became J2SE 5.0 (JDK version 1.5), then Java SE 6 (JDK 1.6) and at the end of this month a new version is coming out: Java SE 7 (JDK version 1.7).
Don't read too much in the version numbers; it looks like you think there was some radical, incompatible change between "Java 1" and "Java 2". That's not the case.
For the stuff you use on a day to day basis, the features introduced in Java 4 (regular expressions) and Java 5 (generics, foreach, etc) are more important than new features in Java 6.
i'm still going through the links Ulf posted for me, but so far java5 seems to have the most important changes to the language section. some very nice changes at that
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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