June 28, 2004

J2SE 5.0

Its the official new name for Tiger. They've dropped the "1." part of 1.5.0 and kept the 5.0. Press release here.

I've known this is coming for months, but I don't really know what it means yet. I believe it is driven by marketing. But does it have more legs than the "Java 2" fiasco? In 6 months will we be talking about Java 5 or Java 1.5? Time will tell, I guess. But I'll have to decide before then what to call it in Java in a Nutshell | TrackBack