The Site With the Lamp

January 13, 2005

There is an article at the java website titled Five reasons to move to j2se 5 platform How valid are they?

#1: Your application already works on 5.0

Nay not so, there are numorous bugs in java 5, that resulted in existing code not working in the early releases of this new version. Some of them are very serious

#2: It is faster

perhaps yes

#3: Reduced development time

If you want your application to work with the older versions of java you still have to code it using the old syntax. Since most installations are of version 1.4 and not 1.5 (the real name of java 5).

How much time you can save by writing jFrame.add(jComponet) instead of jFrame.getContentPane().add(jComponent)

#4: Ready for Mission-Critical Systems

ok. will let that one go

#5: You Are in Good Company

Who cares about what the java community thinks? it's the end user, the man on the street who breaks out in a sweat when faced with the task of installing new software on his computer that matters.

I have nothing against java, but I dont' like the hype.