Project Hamburg

The project formerly known as Consumer JRE, formerly known as Browser Edition, formerly known as the Java Kernel...

I say, let’s just use a symbol to identify this project - something from the wingdings font set, like “.” I think Sun has spent more time and effort on naming this thing than actually defining or marketing it. But nonetheless, it’s actually very cool technology, whatever you choose to call it - I’ll call it Project .

Project Hamburg (alright, I give in) is about making Java quicker, smaller, and easier to get up and running on a computer that doesn’t have it installed yet. This type of approach would have made Java Applets, for example, less of a burden as they required relatively huge downloads to install and run.

Here are the main items that the Java desktop team is shooting for in this release:

- Quickstarter. Radically reduce the startup time for Java applications and applets.

- Java Kernel. Reduce the time to install and launch when the user needs to install the JRE in order to run an application.

- Deployment toolkit. Enable easy detection and installation of the JRE.

- Installer improvements. Improve the user experience of installation; namely streamline, simplify, and speed up the installation process.

- Graphics performance on Microsoft Windows. Enable default graphics acceleration for simple and advanced 2D rendering.

- Nimbus look and feel. Release a new cross-platform look and feel based on Synth.

Happy coding!
EJB

Posted by Eric Bruno at 04:00 PM  Permalink