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Drag and Drop: New Data Transfer Capabilities in the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM), version 1.4(1)
New Data Transfer CapabilitiesJohn Zukowski
November 2001 Sun is currently undergoing their third beta release of the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM), version 1.4. This latest release incorporates many new and interesting features into the standard library set, some of which have been available as standard extensions for some time. These would include capabilities like the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE), Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS), the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), and JDBC extensions. All of these libraries have been available as optional libraries and work with prior versions of the Java 2 Platform. Now, they just come standard. In addition to adding previously optional packages to the standard library set, the 1.4 release also incorporates many new features. These totally new elements include new Swing components, new I/O management, and a new assert keyWord in the language. Features like these are not backward compatible and are not available as optional libraries for earlier releases of the Java 2 Platform.
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