The early release last week was apparently for JavaLobby website members only, but it is now also available from http://java.sun.com
Tim Berners-Lee knighted
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of URLs and the concept of hyper-links, and therefore credited with the creation of the World-wide Web, is named on the Queen’s New Years honours list to be knighted.
Java 2 SDK v1.5 alpha available for download?
www.java.net yesterday had a link to an alpha release of ‘Tiger’ (1.5) for download, but today the link and the news article seem to have been removed.
As it was only an alpha release, I wonder if there were some serious bugs and the download was pulled?