Java 1.5 Features

[ArchAngel]

Everyone who likes Java will love it come 1.5...

http://java.sun.com/features/2003/05/bloch_qa.html

[customwoodtek]

I have been on 1.5 since the first stable release came out. I love it, especially the autoboxing feature. Oh and now with things like ArrayLists you have to state the type of content rather then doing an ugly cast (just like template classes in C++). The for each loop is kinda cool too, unless you need to know the index number for some reason. Plus a bunch of other stuff i'm not even listing. I just whish people would start getting off their asses and convert to 1.5. I'm sick of converting code to work in a 1.4.2 enviornment and there are even still people on 1.3.1(what are THEY thinking??). Big ups for Tiger ;) .

I'm using the Eclipse milestone releases too and everything so far has been smooth sailing (minus some very small quirks i found here and there).

[sjalle]

All that is nice stuff, although the old ways are embedded in my lower arm
and I do it without thinking....

What I would really like to see was a change of the old ImageObserver and
ImageProducer crap, a promise was made in 1997 to put an end
to that misery, but so far I haven't seen anything, have you guys ?