For those of you who don't read Slashdot headlines, Sun has an interview regarding the new features being worked out for Java 1.5 available here.

Hmph. Shame they went with C++ templates for their generics. The least could have done is come up with a better syntax. Maybe they can claim Java is enhanced with XML....

Autoboxing is just embarrassing.

I can't say that I was happy with the changes Sun made from 1.4.1_01 to 1.4.1_02, given that I recently upgraded expecting only minor bugfixes to find many of my classes no longer compiled.

You should do what I do: work on a platform that barely supports 1.3.1 :-/

Who needs .NUT anyway?

Sun? ;-) I think everything described in that article except templates (and maybe static imports) already exists in some form in C#, and templates are coming to .NET Real Soon Now. Indeed, the whole Java 1.5 project looks suspiciously like an attempt to bring Java up to par with C#. Competition works, I guess.

(Aside: I just noticed the BigInteger has a constructor that generates prime numbers. Neat.)