[Biojava-l] JDK 1.4 in beta release

[Schreiber, Mark]

Maybe the biojava community should discuss when a change to JDK1.4 is
desirable, maybe after version 1.2 is released future work should be done
with JDK1.4??

Just a thought

Mark


Mark Schreiber
Bioinformatics
AgResearch Invermay
PO Box 50034
Mosgiel
New Zealand

PH: +64 3 489 9175

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Down [mailto:td2@sanger.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 6:15 AM
> To: Humphrey Sheil
> Cc: biojava-l@biojava.org
> Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] JDK 1.4 in beta release
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:15:48PM +0100, Humphrey Sheil wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Just thought I'd give you all a heads up about the 1.4 JDK. 
>  It's finally
> > hit the streets in beta release at:
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/?frontpage-hottopics
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I've got it successfully installed and running on my Linux
> test machine.  I've compiled BioJava and everything seems tto
> run nicely.  There does, however, seem to be some sort of
> problem using ANT to compile the project -- I'll look into
> that tommorow if I get any time.
> 
> Other than all the lovely new API (which I guess we should avoid
> using in BioJava, for a while at least), there seem to be some
> significant improvements in the performance of Java 2D graphics,
> at least under Unix.  I'd say it's worth upgrading just for that...
> 
>    Thomas.
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