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            <p>I am now getting my feet wet and hands dirty coding with java 5 simply by changing my <em>JAVA_HOME</em> env. variable to <em>/opt/java/jdk1.5.0</em>. That means any java applications that I run will automatically use the new version - which is the fifth to be installed on this hard disk - not counting the wireless toolkits.</p>
            <p>The first thing that stuck me about the new JVM is the new metal look and feel. It's just as nice as they have described in the documentation, so I take my hat off to the guys who worked on it. It's interesting to note that making your own look and feels (L&amp;Fs) are now so much easier, that's certainly worth further investigaton.</p>
            <p>Do you want to know what was the first application that I ran? it was <a href="http://www.radinks.net/ftp/">Rad FTP</a> and <a href="http://www.radinks.com/sftp/">Rad SFTP</a> desktop client came in second. They both worked with out any glitches so I guess we must have done something right! Didn't get to try out the applet versions yet because i have yet to reconfigure mozilla to use the new plugin. Though I happily run dozens bleeding edge software on my machine, i am reluctant to change the plug in - my livelyhood depends on it!!</p>
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On the road with Java 5.0

2004 July 5 at 00:56 » Tagged as :