Wednesday, June 21, 2006

 

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 Beta 2 is out

JDK 1.6 (Java SE 6) beat 2 is out already!

They have added some improvements in both the debugging capabilities and the JMX (monitoring/management) API.

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 Beta:

Improved JMX Monitoring API
New custom deployment facilities
Improved memory usage analysis and leak detection
Improvements to the Java Platform Debug Architecture (JPDA) & JVM Tool Interface


This will be a big boon to developers.

Better transparency into applications and services really makes a difference when something is going wrong but nobody can quite put their finger on it. This is especially true of performance problems.

Being able to put numbers on throughput, latencies, and so forth - that sweeps the fog away from the scene.

The improvements in debugging sound neat too - at least down the road. Until they actually get taken advantage of in an IDE, it might not matter. However, at least debuggers will be getting better in the future.

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