New Features and Enhancements

The new features of version 1.4 of the Java™ 2 SDK, Standard Edition, (J2SE™) are listed below. Documentation for the full list of features, including features brought forward from previous versions of the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition,, is available at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/index.html.

• "XML Processing"

• "New I/O APIs"

• "Security"

• "Java 2D Technology"

• "Image I/O Framework"

• "Java Print Service API"

• "AWT"

• "Swing"

• "Drag and Drop"

• "Logging API"

• "Java Web Start Product"

• "Long-term Persistence of JavaBeans Components"

• "JDBC 3.0 API"

• "Assertion Facility"

• "Preferences API"

• "Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism"

• "64-bit Support"

• "Java HotSpot Virtual Machines"

• "Performance"

• "Networking Support, Including IPv6"

• "RMI"

• "Serialization"

• "Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)"

• "CORBA, Java IDL, and RMI-IIOP"

• "Java Platform Debugger Architecture Product"

• "Internationalization"

• "Java Plug-in Product"

• "Collections Framework"

• "Accessibility"

• "Regular Expressions"

• "Math"

• "Reflection"

• "Java Native Interface"

• "Tools and Utilities"