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Greetings...
J2SE 5.0 ("Tiger") arrived as expected last week. Having had such a long
and public beta, the release was perhaps more confirmation than
revelation. After all, the first Tiger books started showing up last
summer at JavaOne, and anyone who was waiting for generics or varargs has
probably already made the jump. With 5.0 now final, I imagine the next
thing to do is to file bugs against the final release and start
complaining about the wait for J2SE 5.1.
Then again, you don't have to jump to 5.0 at all. Kyle Downey notes,
"Application server vendors don't always fully support dot-zero releases
right away; IDE, profiler, and other tool support can lag; many new bugs
have to be fixed; and businesses are leery of building on anything so
new." Also, Kyle is on Mac OS X, which is still waiting for Tiger.
Still, Kyle's interested in annotations, and in "Bridging the Gap: J2SE
5.0 Annotations," he shows how to use metadata and metaprogramming both in
J2SE 5.0 and in several frameworks that are compatible with earlier
versions of Java, such as XDoclet, JBoss annotations, and his own P.Anno.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/10/06/anno1.html
One advanced topic that is getting more attention is bytecode
manipulation, and among the various entries in the field, the ASM toolkit
is particularly successful. Projects such as Groovy, BeanShell, and
AspectWerkz now use ASM, thanks to its light weight and high performance.
In "Using the ASM Toolkit for Bytecode Manipulation," Eugene Kuleshov
introduces an interface and uses bytecode manipulation to implement it in
arbitrary code.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/10/06/asm1.html
"Sun's Java Desktop System (JDS) has faced a lot of flack from the Free
Software community. People object to Sun's naming scheme and branding and
have cried out in angst about JDS's complex and unattractive end-user
licensing agreement." So begins "What's So Java About Sun's Linux
Desktop?" by Sam Hiser, who writes that far from being bashed, the JDS
should be appreciated as a tightly-integrated, stable, and compelling
Linux desktop with a generous helping of Java applications and tools. Sam
is also the author of O'Reilly's "Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop".
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/10/06/jds.html
In our feature article from java.net, "The Blacksmith and the Bookkeeper,
Part 1," Max Goff takes a historical and economic look at the title
occupations, one of which lives on today while the other has been rendered
irrelevant by progress. His goal is to compare both professions to the
modern software developer, in order to produce "forecasts for the likely
evolution of software programming as a viable future profession," though
you'll have to wait for part 2 to see whether your career is doomed to
obsolescence.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/09/09/blacksmith.html
Please join us again next week.
Chris Adamson, editor
ONJava.com
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