[SDX]

Can anyone tell me about the new fixes and improvements in Netbeans 4.1 and JDK5.

[fitzjj]

I dont use netbeans so cant comment on that one but java5 has some new features over java2:

> there is now a printf method just like the printf function in C (surely it should be called printm!!!, oh well..)

> Better way of dealing with enumerated types

> The abiliyt to pass varying numbers of arguments to a single method without having to overload it.

I'm sure there are a few other improvements too, but those are all i have heard of so far, but i havent done any java5 coding yet

[cakeMate]

my professor told us not to use JDK5 cuz it's new and not sofisticated enough to be stable. I don't think it'll make much difference for a beginner but just food for thought.

[fitzjj]

Originally posted by cakeMate
my professor told us not to use JDK5

Same here, again because it is not quite stable yet, although it has been out a while but most develepoers have stuck to 1.4 unless they needed the functionality of 5 - has been around a little while now though

[Iron_Cross]

If you want to find out the new features in Netbeans, check the netbeans site (http://www.netbeans.org/) if you want to find out the new features in java 1.5 check sun's site (http://java.sun.com/)