Posts tagged Java

MMMM Mustang

I hate to just blog about someone else’s blog but hey improvements in Java like this don’t come around everyday. In the latest build of Java 6.0, Mustang, they have implemented a better register allocator and have managed to speed up the Hotspot Client by 58%. Now that is amazing and with other improvements like [...]

Study

You know what one of the hardest things to do after a year off (I was on IBL for a year at VSL) is STUDY. I was trying all of last week, I got a little bit done but really not enough. After last year when I could come home and forget about work to [...]

Java 5 Released

Java 5 was released by Sun today. You get can get your J2SE development kit or JRE from here it’s been a long time coming but word has it that 6 will be out next year, or so says NewsForge we will see. I haven’t had a chance to acctually code anything yet but playing [...]

Are you ready for Java 5.0?

Surfing around today I found that the next major release of Java will not be the long awaited 1.5 but have decided to go straight for 5.0. Java has always had a rather strange numbering system as they called Java 1.2, Java 2. This saw the inclusion of the swing toolkit among other things which [...]

Open source Java

Just reading OSNews as I always do low and behold Java will become open source See Here As said “it might be today, tomorrow or two years down the road” but hey if it is one day then yey for the people who can then hack it to really rock :razz: