JDistro is a project to build a Java distribution. The main subprojects are a shared runtime, an application launcher, a Swing desktop with document management, a transparent virtual file system, and an access to remote applications.
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This release adds support for JDIC, Runtime, and ShutdownHooks. It fixes bugs for user.dir, URLStreamHandler, and ContentHandler. It improves tar/zip and AWT support and some of the utilities.
This release adds many changes, including better compatibility, an
improved catalog, modality per application, new commands, a ghost mode,
new translations, and new URL schemes.
This release adds a remote shell server, the ghost mode (hidden shared runtime), alpha support for midlets, boot preferences, and many improvements and bugfixes.
This release adds a lot of features like proxy settings, window
state, multi audio engine, support for XAWT (JRE1.5), and a
rewritten window manager. It also includes some new small
applications and the usual optimizations and bugfixes.
There are many new things in this release,
including a shell, a better terminal, checks in
entity, thumbnails, support for the Class-Path
attribute in JARs and for the extension tag in
JNLP, tagged threads, and more. Many improvements
and bugfixes were made.
