Java SE 6 Released
Christmas came early this year for Java developers… Java SE 6 has finally been released. Java 6 comes with a ton of Swing bug fixes, improvements, and goodies but what I am looking forward to the most is JSR 199 Java Compiler API, JSR 269 Pluggable Annotation Processing API, JSR 223 Scripting in the Java Platform, JSR 221 JDBC 4.0, and JSR 224 JAX-RPC 2.0.
NetBeans 5.5 has built-in support for Java SE 6 and you can download them together. The JDK SE 6 also comes bundled with Java DB, a pure Java SQL compliant relational database engine based on Apache Derby. The JDK also comes with jrunscript.exe, an experimental command line script interpreter. Use jrunscript to run JavaScript files or interactively code a quick and dirty prototype in your favorite scripting language. For more information regarding what is new in Java SE 6 head over to the Sun Developer Network.
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