On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:29 -0400, "Buck Turgidson" <jc_va@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Now my circumstances are changing again back to Java, and I am wondering how >much, in the interim, has Java changed? Java does not change, other than a few deprecations.. It just gets additions and old parts slowly rot away from disuse. Major additions over the years. Collections http://mindprod.com/jgloss/collection.html Swing http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swing.html Generics http://mindprod.com/jgloss/generics.html JCE (cryptography) http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jce.html JavaMail http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javamail.html annotations http://mindprod.com/jgloss/annotations.html on the fly compilation http://mindprod.com/jgloss/onthefly.html nio http://mindprod.com/jgloss/nio.html encodings and Readers http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html http://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html Java Web Start http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javawebstart.html enumerations http://mindprod.com/jgloss/enum.html public JWS icon now posted http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javawebstart.html#ICON -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products The Java Glossary http://mindprod.com