Java 1.5 Timeline

General Discussions
#1

Some news about Java 1.5 from the inside:

One the concurrency-interest list Doug Lea stated the following in a message he wrote about one week ago:

[quote]While I’m at it: The currently posted APIs as of today (modulo
cosmetic touch-ups) are the ones that will appear in the first public
beta of Sun JDK1.5.0, due out the first week of February. (This week
is internal API freeze deadline for beta1.)
[/quote]
I’m really looking forward to 1.5. If there now was (good) news about the fate of the isolation API…

#2

Well, one can always ask ;D
Isolation interest group:
http://bitser.net/isolate-interest/

However, I don’t expect it to be in 1.5. They said it will go in parallel.

February 2004? that’s two years after 1.4.0 final. Two and a half when Tiger becomes final. So, isn’t that a little slow for a main release? I thought the plan was 12-18 months cycle for major releases.

#3

[quote]February 2004? that’s two years after 1.4.0 final. Two and a half when Tiger becomes final. So, isn’t that a little slow for a main release? I thought the plan was 12-18 months cycle for major releases.
[/quote]
Java grows with every release. If Sun wants to keep to the 12-18 months cycle they need more resources (people), which may not pay off. Maybe Sun has to change their strategy to resolve all the bugs and grow Java in a shorter time. They could split up the JRE in smaller pieces and start opensourcing parts of it. :wink:

#4

I couldn’t agree more. And what can be better for bugfixing than OSS. I actually think that they will be forced to do something along that lines, just to keep pace with the other (uhmm “dark” ) side.

#5

I suppose you have already seen this, but:

“Get the latest J2SE 1.5 builds NOW”
http://www.javalobby.org/thread.jspa?forumID=61&threadID=9624