Re: JDK 1.2 (was Re: XML as a programming tool)

Charles Kerr (cskerr@geocities.com)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:33:09 -0600

The APIs seem to be mostly stable -- if I were you I'd try jumping to 1.2.
However, every time I try to use MSXML 1.8 with the JDK 1.2 beta, I get
an Exception...

>> JUMBO is 1.02 and I was planning to go to 1.1.4. Is there any reason
(other
>> than brain overload) why I shouldn't now jump straight to 1.2? i.e. is
the
>> beta reasonably stable?
>
>Well yah most of it is stable. It has no new language features other than
weak
>references (which really are not a language feature like inner classes),
but a
>lot new API's including Swing.