Sun News - Java Tiger Press Kit

"In accord with the increasingly open Java Community Process policies and guidelines, several major components of Project Tiger were conceived and led by members of the Java community. All 15 component JSRs had plenty of community involvement, leading to more advice, feedback, review, testing, and midcourse improvements than ever before in a major Java platform release. As specification lead for the Concurrency Utilities specification, it's great to see the results of all these component JSRs efficiently coordinated and available in J2SE."

- Doug Lea, professor at State University of New York, Oswego Spec Lead for Concurrency Utilities

"Beyond the technical improvements delivered by J2SE 5.0 over its predecessors, we were pleased to observe tight collaboration across the community in the development of this new platform. Individual, academic, open source and corporate entities have worked together to deliver what is now the best Java Platform the Java development community has ever seen. This is a major step in the right direction, and we are looking forward to even broader community participation and process transparency for J2SE 6."

- Geir Magnusson Jr., The Apache Software Foundation's JCP SE/EE Executive Committee member
Pier Fumagalli, The Apache Software Foundation's representative on the J2SE Expert Group

"Above all else, this is a developer-focused release. When the Java platform was introduced by James Gosling and his team in 1995, it took off like a rocket because it struck a chord with developers--and J2SE 5.0 is building on that legacy. I've had the good fortune to use the new features for the last year-and-a-half in the course of their development. I find them a joy to use and I have every confidence that other developers will too."

- Joshua Bloch Specification lead for new language features, (JSR-201), Metadata (JSR-175) and author of "Effective Java" (Addison Wesley, 2001)

"J2SE 5.0 is the culmination of many years' work and a major step forward for the Java community. Enterprises around the globe will benefit from the ability to extend legacy systems through its implementation of web services and be able to integrate heterogeneous environments much more easily than before. Borland's Jbuilder 2005 is among the first Java development tools to fully support J2SE 5.0. and make this a reality."

- George Paolini, Vice President and General Manager Developer Tools, Borland Software

"We will be making J2SE 5.0 the foundation for our Java based products. The language enhancements along with the stability and performance of the new Java platform will help us further increase the product quality and reliability our customers have to come to expect of us."

- Rob Abbe, Chief Product Architect, Captovation, Inc.

"Wily has worked with all the major infrastructure providers, such as BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun, to integrate its automatic management capabilities into their respective application server platforms. We are now taking our instrumentation technology and innovative approach a step further by contributing it as a standard in the Java platform, to better ensure that enterprises deploying critical Java applications have the means to effectively monitor and application performance. Wily is proud to have played an important role with the Java community in developing one of the most significant releases of the Java platform."

- Jeff Cobb, Chief Scientist at Wily Technology, Inc.

"InstallAnywhere has always been the first to support the latest innovations in Java technology. Working with Sun, we are continuing our commitment to provide customers with the latest technologies to improve the software installation process by integrating support for J2SE 5.0, and jump-starting its adoption by the thousands of developers who use InstallAnywhere for deploying Java-based applications."

- Eric N. Shapiro Chief Executive Officer, Zero G Software