Tuesday, 12 December 2006

Sun Announces Java Platform Standard Edition 6

Sun, the creator of Java technology and the Solaris Operating System, has unveiled the Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). Developers interested in getting started immediately with the Java SE 6 release can leverage the new NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 5.5, which supports all the latest features of the Java SE 6 platform, the company stated.

According to the company, the combination of the new Java SE 6 release and the NetBeans 5.5 IDE provides developers with an open framework for delivering Java technology-based applications. The NetBeans IDE provides an open source, high performance, modular, extensible, multi-platform Java IDE to accelerate the development of Java SE 6 software-based applications and web services. The NetBeans IDE is available for download along with the Java SE 6 platform here.

"With expanded dynamic language and web services support, the Java SE 6 platform is optimised for building Web 2.0 applications and services,” said Rich Green, executive vice president of Software at Sun. “Moving forward, the OpenJDK project will define how Sun's Java SE implementation evolves, and we look forward to working even more closely with the developer community on the next version of the Java SE platform.”

The Java SE 6 software helps accelerate developer innovation for web-based, dynamic and online collaboration applications by including a new framework and developer APIs to allow mixing of Java technology with dynamically typed languages, such as PHP, Python, Ruby and JavaScript technology, the company claimed.

In-depth information and technology downloads for the Java SE 6 release are available here.