The Lurker

Java 1.4.2 changes

The list of changes in the Java 1.4.2 beta for Linux looks very promising. I've been inconvenienced by a couple of sound issues in the past; this version of the sound implementation releases the sound device when an applet's audio clip is no longer in use, and the ALSA sound API is supported. But more interesting is the GTK Swing theme. Hopefully, at last, Java applets will not be as hideous as they are with AWT's Motif or the standard Swing look and feel.

I'm also looking forward to seeing the startup time improvements: For a small command line application, startup time has been reduced by roughly thirty percent.

The JVM executable has accepted -cp as an alias for the -classpath command line argument for years; finally the same alias has been added to javac.

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