Which Java SE 6 (Mustang) features appeal to you most?

Not 6.0

by tchangu - 2006-02-22 11:40

I think Mustang should be 5.1 and I dont get a feeling it should be 6.0. Plus many organizations (big and lethargic ones) are just moving from 1.3 to 1.4. Now if 6.0 gets out, many, especially the management (decision makers), would treat the current platform (1.4) as risky because of potential EOL of the platform they are moving to. They typically think that only two/three major versions are supported. So 6.0 is out, 1.4.2 would go out of support pretty soon....

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Swing...

by stitzl - 2006-02-20 08:34

... should be usable any day now... Cheers, Lars

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Desktop is the way to go!

by linuxhippy - 2006-02-19 13:46

In my opinion Sun should learn from MS, Desktop has always been the way to market domination - server follows almost always.
With java this has not been different, only because applet boomed that much some people started to use it for server.

Enhanced startup time (in general but also for applets) however is one feature users and developers would love to see and absolutly NOTHING happend since 1.4.2 (no, class sharing isn't even noticeable).

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java has to be strong on desktop

by nocturnal - 2006-02-18 23:36

java has to integrate a lot of other technologies. integration and collaboration are "the way of the future".

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Hard to decide

by prime21 - 2006-02-17 16:15

This was a hard choice. All of those points are things I'm totally excited about with Mustang. I ended up choosing desktop (and looks like everyone else did too), but web services, debugging, management, security are all great improvements. I keep hearing that 1.6 should be viewed as a Java point release. I disagree, I think it has major improvements over 1.5.

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debuggin' & profilin'

by trilambda - 2006-02-17 06:47

the desktop enhancements are great, hopefully they'll help get java desktop apps over the hump. however, i'm most excited about the additions in debugging and profiling. the extra handling of stack traces for OutOfMemoryException will help a lot. being able to profile and debug at the same time will be great also.

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Others

by alexlamsl - 2006-02-17 05:15

Scripting support, tons of bug fixes (esp with the older / popular ones and Generics)

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