I would like to echo Ron's request to concentrate on rigid backward compatibility before adding new features. Like Ron we've been bitten by changes in behavior between 1.2 and 1.3/1.4 which is costing us inordinate amounts of time simply to "stand still", i.e. to keep our application doing the same thing that it does on previous JRE/JDK versions.
So before adding new features that a few lone voices request, please fix existing bugs. If we (a small software company) can use extensive regression testing, why can't Sun ? Sun has very powerful hardware at its disposal, so "slow" regression tests should not be an excuse... Cheers. Laurence Vanhelsuwe + Telework Software - Solving IT in Java + =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".