Description: N early three years ago the design of one of the most significant updates to the Java platform in its history was planned. So what has happened in those three years? J2SE 1.5 (\"Tiger\") has been developed through the Java Community Process (JCP), and in addition to the 18 experts on the J2SE 1.5 JSR (JSR 176) there are an additional 15 component JSRs (see Table 1 ), each with their own domain experts. In addition to Java luminaries such as James Gosling and Graham...