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I bought a copy of the Alt om Data magazine last week to read the small box in their CD section about Fundanemt. If only they had waited for the 2.1 release before writing about it, but I guess we will write a press release once we get there, and hopefully some of the magazines will write about us again.


Anyway, back to the magazine, I read an article about the new Java 5.0 (Tiger) release and the new features SUN had thrown into the package. After reading the article and browsing the web it occurs to me that Java beat C# to the punch when it comes to the new feature everyone requests in both languages "Generics" and when Java 5.0 at the same time adds features as

• Boxing - Primitive types can now be assigned directly to e.g. Integer, which comes really in handy when using generics.
• Foreach loop - although implemented using the old for keyword it functions the same was as in C#
• XML - one of the things I missed most in the previous Java versions was core support for XML, and now it is here - no need for using external packages.

On top of those features, SUN has polished the engine so it has lower startup time and

Guess I will have to look more into Java when we are done with the C# project at the university.