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

Tyler Baker (tyler@infinet.com)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:06:58 -0400


Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

> At 06:13 16/09/97 -0400, Tyler Baker wrote:
>
> Thanks very much Tyler - this was news to me.
>
> >
> >In case everyone does not already know, JDK 1.2 beta 2 is out on SUN's web
> site
> >at http://java.sun.com
> >
>
> 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.

Tyler