Most of you guys probably already saw this, but it came as a surprise to
me...
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/
I thought that things would settle down after 1.2. Still, the
enhancements look like they're reasonably minor and well chosen. JNDI
should have been in the core platform from the start, and RMI/IIOP
should have too except that it was ready just too late to make it into
1.2.
The coolest feature though, IMHO, is tucked away as if it were
insignificant - dynamic proxy classes. You could write something like
RMI *very* easily with that, and there would be no need for compile-time
stub creation either! (The stub classes could be created on demand at
runtime). I wonder if there's *any* way that we (classpath) could base
our RMI implementation on that without breaking compatibility with the
standard platform...
Anyway - just my thoughts. It'll be a while before we implement any of
this stuff, of course.
Stuart.
