Re: what's new with Java 6

Some of my faves and other notables...

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Tim Jowers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Java Platform Debug Architecture
 - jhat included
 - change vm properties on-the-fly

> Integrated Script support including JavaScript support
 - many script languages available for download

> JAX-WS 2.0 for Webservices
 - able to be a webservice client
 - able to publish webservices (it has a built-in http server to
publish endpoints)

> Faster default performance
 - lots of major improvements
 - concurrent collector
 - parallel compator

- JavaDB
 - relabeled Apache Derby database

- JMX enhancements
  - MXBeans

- Dynamic Attach
 - attach to running processes
 - debugger
 - jconsole

- ServiceLoader
  - Sun has had this privately, it's now public
  - allows you to provide implementations in a file
/META-INF/services/org.trijug.IMailingList

- JConsole
 - plugins

The official features: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/features.html

Many new features have been backported to java 1.5.

-- 
Robert Dale