Q 4 H. Schildt (1): scope of features

[Gian Franco]

Dear author,

Are the features, as mentioned in the title of
your book, new functional additions or does
your book cover also enhancements like new
compile time checks, performance, major
bugfixing?

Cheers,

Gian Franco Casula

[Nicholas Cheung]

From the TOC provided by Ko Ko:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=Mo5pgIv99m&sourceid=00396416676064285096&bfdate=08%2D24%2D2004+02%3A19%3A07&ean=9780072258547&displayonly=TOC#TOC

Java 2 V1. 5 (Tiger) New Features


Table of Contents
1 The Tiger Is Loose
2 Autoboxing and Auto-Unboxing
3 Generics
4 The For-Each Version of the for Loop
5 Varargs: Variable-Length Arguments
6 Enumerations
7 Metadata
8 Static Import
9 Formatted I/O
10 Changes to the API

You can see nth is about the performance, compliation stuffs.

The book focus on the APIs and data structures changed.

Nick

[Pradeep bhatt]

There is no mention of java annotations in TOc.Is it covered?

[Nicholas Cheung]

As the TOC is also quite primitive, we may not have enough info. However, if we just based on the TOC, I guess this topic is not covered.

Nick

[somkiat puisungnoen]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
There is no mention of java annotations in TOc.Is it covered?

I'm Guess ::

Annotation Topic is in Metadata Topic .....

[Pradeep bhatt]

Guys
Here is a good article on annotations.

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2004/jw-0719-tiger3_p.html

Hope the author has covered this in some chapter.

[Ko Ko Naing]

Originally posted by Nicholas Cheung:
You can see nth is about the performance, compliation stuffs.

FYI, u guys might be interested in the performance comparison among C, C++, Java 1.4 and Java 1.5 here in this link I'm pretty interested in performance issue of Tiger, as Pradeep told me in another thread that Generics feature of Tiger is better than Generics feature of C++ which is template usage...

Hope you guys might like that performance issue in the link too...

[somkiat puisungnoen]

Reference Website

Annotation Tutorial from SUN

[Nicholas Cheung]

I wish the author can explain more on those new issues, in here, or in the book.

Nick

[Ko Ko Naing]

Originally posted by Nicholas Cheung:
I wish the author can explain more on those new issues, in here, or in the book.

Nick

But for now, it's at night time in U.S. and the author might be sleeping at this time...

I hope we can get in touch with the author tomorrow...

[Gian Franco]

Thanks guys

[Jeff Langr]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Here is a good article on annotations.

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2004/jw-0719-tiger3_p.html

At the risk of being self-promoting, I post this link to another article, part 1 of 2:
http://www.langrsoft.com/articles/annotations.html

-Jeff-