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Sun releases beta of "Mustang" Java desktop software, which is set to be completed this fall.
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- Bravo!
- by Philips February 15, 2006 9:12 AM PST
- Java 1.5 haven't yet came out of beta, but Sun already started 1.6. Bravo! Who needs this days stable software anyway. Especially on desktops.
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- heh
- by WebmasterOfWarStoke.com February 15, 2006 9:57 AM PST
- just watch i can see hundreds of java apps suddenly needing to be recoded on the horizon.
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- Java 1.5 was released on 2004-09-29
- by javafan February 15, 2006 12:23 PM PST
- Firstly Java 1.5 was released on 2004-09-29 (which means 1 year and 4 months ago). And secondly there's no need to rewrite Java Apps because Java is compatible from one release to the other.
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(3 Comments)as for why they went to 1.6 maybe they found a better way to write the core the 1.5 branch and the 1.6 could be pretty much different animals even tho the externals are the same