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Sun Microsystems Inc. will take the wraps off Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (T2SE) version 1.5 at its JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco June 10-12. The new version of the Java platform is designed to be easier to use, with new language features, including generics and metadata.
"J2SE is the core of all Java technology," said Karen Shipe, product line manager for J2SE. "We're actually starting to refer to it [internally] as Core Java."
New features in the release, scheduled for the first half of 2004 and code-named "Tiger," fall along four themes, she said. Those themes...