ACME Java - Bugs

Some bugs and deficiencies we've run across.

Still present in JDK 1.1:

• Character.toString() bug. Character lacks a static toString method.
• TextComponent enhancement. An appendText() method would be nice.
• Integral operations bug. Byte and short operands are always promoted to int.

Fixed in JDK 1.1:

• Exec bug. The error stream of an exec'd process is not reliably accessible.

Not yet checked in JDK 1.1:

• MediaTracker enhancement. For easier use in non-GUI applications.
• PrintStream enhancement. Trivial change that boosts performance tremendously.
• URLConnection bug. NullPointerException on non-existent files.
• Hard loop bugs. A hard loop in Java causes browsers to misbehave.