This month the topic will be J2SE 1.5 and what the new features and enhancements will mean for your code. After reading through the slides that Benedict has put together ( * link via joe), what are your thoughts on the features that will affect you most?

• Do Doug Lea's concurrency utilities rock your world?
• Do the changes to Decimal Arithmetic, fundamentally alter your core business calculations?
• Does the new default Swing look and Feel (Ocean screenshot use exactly the wrong shade of cyan?
• Will you be using the skinable look and feel - synth
• Are you going to dare to put Generics [pdf] in your code, and risk a hundred subsequent coders cursing your name forevermore
• How small will your applications go, now we have the super-dooper compression for JARs - Pack200
• Will you ignore the tiger for a while, because your unable to release code to a JDK until the JDK has been end-of-life'd.
• Bring along your 'obscure but interesting enhancements spots' or your pet gripe...

Where: Smiths of Smithfield [map]
When: Monday 19 Apr 2004 - 5pm till closing time.
How much: FREE, but not as in beer.
Who's gonna be there?

• Jeremy Rayner
• Simon Brunning
• Max Kington
• Sam Newman
• Sam Dalton
• Pratik Patel
• ... please leave a comment if you wanna pop along. (newbies welcome)

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Jeremy Rayner
Simon Brown
Sam Dalton
Steve Heath
Rohan Talip
Ken Horn
Sam Newman
Simon Brunning