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by Nick Lothian.
Original Post: JDK1.5 Alpha Rant
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Sun made the JDK1.5 Alpha available today through JavaLobby. I think that was a great move on their part, but I do think
having to click through a big disclaimer promising not to talk about it was a bad move. I'm sure Sun was worried about
people complaining about bugs or bad performance or something, but we all understand this is an alpha release, right?
Alphas always have bugs and performance problems, and those things are easily solvable. Much more important is the marketing of this,
the most significant release of Java since 1.2. There is an enormous set of wonderful features coming in Java 1.5, and here I am enjoying
them all, and dying to proclaim that Java 1.5 is the one true development environment, and it kicks the .NET's butt. Unfortunalty, I can't tell you that,
or anything else about it really - and this is for a product that is probably only 6 months from release!
Meanwhile, our friends at Microsoft have thousands of people writing about Longhorn, Avalon, WinFS etc, etc - all of which
won't be released until 2006 at the earliest. That is Sun's problem, and I hope they realise it.
It was a nice Christmas present, though - even if I won't get to play with it for a few days.
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