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IBM: BETA: Java 1.1 for OS/2 Warp: New Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Sun Jun 22 02:58:12 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 21 Jun 1997 18:01:00 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-to: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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The Java Development Kit 1.1 pre-release (beta) is now available from the
following web address:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/jdk/s-feat.htm.
Java 1.1 for OS/2 Warp
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The JDK 1.1 for OS/2 Warp beta is a fully compliant implementation of Sun
Microsystems,* Inc.'s JDK 1.1 (Version 1.1.1), which includes support for
JavaBeans*, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC*), and improved security
features, as well as many other improvements.
The JDK 1.1 for OS/2 Warp includes substantial improvements over the currently
available JDK 1.02 with many new capabilities. Some of the more significant
improvements include:
- JavaBeans platform-independent component architecture lets developers write
re-usable components once and run them anywhere. Customers can be assured
that components developed with the JDK 1.1 for OS/2 Warp will be
interoperable with other JavaBeans components, regardless of the operating
system platform, reducing development and deployment costs.
- JDBC provides an open interface specification to SQL databases, allowing
customers using a Java-based application to transparently access information
from legacy databases, such as IBM's DB2.
- Signed Java-based applets -- such as bank loan applications -- can be
downloaded from an intranet or Internet site and saved to the user's hard
disk for added security.
- Many Java-based applications will perform close to 30 percent faster, as
measured by the CaffeineMark 2.5 performance benchmark, over the currently
available Java 1.02 for OS/2 Warp.
- Language internationalization implements UniCODE 2.0 and classes, so that
global applications can run in any language and include the correct
character set, time, date and currency for that locale.
- For programmers, this release of Java for OS/2 Warp includes a new debugger.
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