slashdot has an article about the Java 1.5 beta. I thought I'd post some of the language enhancements since they'll seem very familiar:

Autoboxing/Unboxing (isn't automatic in D but is simple)
Enhanced for Loop (foreach)
Generics
Metadata (I assume this is like C#)
Static Import (not sure what this is)
Typesafe enums
varargs

see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html#lang

Also the collections framework has been updated for 1.5: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/collections/index.html

Static Import is where you would import a classes constants only:

import static java.awt.BorderLayout.*;

 getContentPane().add(new JPanel(), CENTER);

Lets you use CENTER instead of BorderLayout.CENTER.

This link is a good overview of what is new:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/j2se15/

Ben Hinkle wrote:
> slashdot has an article about the Java 1.5 beta. I thought I'd post some of
> the language enhancements since they'll seem very familiar:
> 
> Autoboxing/Unboxing (isn't automatic in D but is simple)
> Enhanced for Loop (foreach)
> Generics
> Metadata (I assume this is like C#)
> Static Import (not sure what this is)
> Typesafe enums
> varargs
> 
> see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html#lang
> 
> Also the collections framework has been updated for 1.5:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/collections/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
>