{"id":90,"date":"2006-10-23T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2006-10-23T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T19:07:35","slug":"java-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/java-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Formtek<\/a> we’re using Java as the engine for our core API that we use to build browser-based content-centric business applications and Web Services.\u00a0\u00a0The current release of Formtek software is based on Java J2SE 5.\u00a0 With SUN beginning to talk more about their J2SE 7.0 Dolphin, we thought that it would be good to look to see what’s available in the soon-to-be-released J2SE 6.0 Mustang.<\/p>\n

J2SE 6.0 started in July 2005 and has been in a Beta 2 stage for a number of months.\u00a0 It is nearing its expected release date of fall 2006.\u00a0 Part of what’s of interest with the 6.0 release is what’s not there.\u00a0 JSR-270 guidelines are working their way into J2SE6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

JSR-270 attempts to remove and transform\u00a0some bloated rarely-used Java features\u00a0into modular components that could be optionally used.\u00a0 What’s driving this is that many people feel that as Java has developed it has become more and more unwieldy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some examples of functionality that may be cut from the standard release\u00a0of Java are MIDI instrument support and possibly CORBA.\u00a0 Reducing this kind of functionality has the benefit of shrinking the size of the minimum Java runtime environment download, although additional new features of the 6.0 release may cancel out any savings.\u00a0 This would be the first time that a new release of Java comes out where some features have actually been cut.<\/p>\n

Other highlights of the 6.0 release include JVM performance improvements and an updated version of JDBC with some features to improve ease of use.\u00a0 The new version will also support the embedding of scripting languages like PHP and JavaScript, and some improvements to Swing UI building and the building of Web Services.<\/p>\n

There’s not that much terribly new in this release.\u00a0 Smaller and faster are always good.\u00a0 Many people are already using some sort of simplifying wrapper layer around JDBC so that any minor usage improvements made to JDBC may largely go unseen.\u00a0 And we’re not doing any new development with Swing.\u00a0 So, from our perspective,\u00a0J2SE 6.0 looks like it\u00a0will be more like just another maintenance release,\u00a0but that’s not necessarily\u00a0a bad thing.<\/p>\n

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At Formtek we’re using Java as the engine for our core API that we use to build browser-based content-centric business applications and Web Services.\u00a0\u00a0The current release of Formtek software is based on Java J2SE 5.\u00a0 With SUN beginning to talk…<\/span><\/p>\n

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