Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday announced the availability of the J2SE (Java 2 Platform Standard Edition) 5.0, which the company said looks to be the most significant Java upgrade to date.
J2SE 5.0, aka Project Tiger, is one of the largest projects created through the Java Community Process, involving more than 100 major new features and 160 expert members' participation, said Calvin Austin, Version 5.0's specification lead and a Sun engineer.
During a conference call on Thursday, Graham Hamilton, a Sun vice president and fellow who served as lead architect in the development of J2SE 5.0, said the upgrade had six themes: quality; performance and scalability; monitoring and management; the desktop client; ease of development; and support for XML.
Sun Releases New Version of Java for Servers, Desktops
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