Java Tiger in focus

If you haven’t heard about the upcoming Java 1.5, code-named Tiger, now’s
the time to catch up. Plenty of articles and comments have already appeared. The latest is by
Petr “Sickboy” Hejl, under the title What’s New in Java, or the Tiger’s Claws.

There’s no point pretending the changes are minor. Quite the opposite. Clearly,
some of the work is shifting to the compiler (generic types and boxing). Unlike
programmers, the compiler doesn’t make mistakes, so that can only be a good thing. Java is also borrowing features from C# (metadata)
and C++ (enumerated types). We’ll see how the community takes to these “foreign” features.

Related articles

• (Dagblog, May 14, 2003) Java Tiger on the Horizon
• (Dagblog, June 27, 2003) Java Roadmap
• (Java.Net blog, October 15, 2003) What’s New in Java 1.5 (Tiger)