Versions of Java revisited

[Dan Bornstein]

Jonathan S. Shapiro writes:
>>Until FreeBSD does 1.3, E will continue to support 1.2.x. Therefore, we
>>still cannot make use of 1.3's deflectors (interface proxies).
>How about "Until FreeBSD and Linux..."?

If a beta is good enough for you, then Linux *does* do 1.3. We've been
trying it out at Xigo and the experience has been mostly positive (much
faster VM, javac is faster and produces more informative error messages,
among other things). We've run into occasional glitches, the worst one
being that there *may* (still not sure) be problems with 1.2* VMs
communicating with 1.3* VMs using RMI (something I would hope would be
fixed before the JDK goes final).

-dan