As you may have noticed, Sun has released an early version of JDK1.5
(which I appreciate very much). Initially Javalobby publicised this
mostly, and insisted that downloaders are bound by a non-disclosure
agreement (which I ranted about previously).
However, now Sun
have published a link to the download, with no mention of a NDA. There
is some quite dense language in the click-thru licence about confidential
information, but I don’t think that is supposed to be a NDA (INAL,
though). In any case, exactly
the same language is used for the JDK1.4.1 download.
It is worth pointing out that the [bug database for
1.5](http://onesearch.sun.com/search/developers/index.jsp?qt=%2B+%2BTiger&c
ol=javabugs&category=&state=&query=Tiger&submit=+Search+) is public, too.
Anyway, unless someone (preferably someone from Sun) can let me know I shouldn’t, I intend to start talking about 1.5