1.5.0-beta3 dev builds available

[trembovetski]

Take a look:
 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/snapshots

Please try them out and send us your comments, and/or file bugs..

[Abuse]

Just out of interest, does any1 know why the Windows AMD64 build is twice the size of every other? (Even the Linux AMD64 build :S)

Windows Platform
                               Windows executable (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-windows-i586-16_jun_2004.exe, 43.81 MB)
       Windows AMD64 Platform
                               Windows AMD tar file (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-windows-amd64-16_jun_2004.tar, 91.17 MB)
       Solaris SPARC Platform
                               Solaris SPARC 32-bit self-extracting file (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-solaris-sparc-16_jun_2004.sh, 47.42 MB)
                               Solaris SPARC 64-bit self-extracting file (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-solaris-sparcv9-16_jun_2004.sh, 9.54 MB)
       Solaris x86 Platform
                               Solaris x86 self-extracting file (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-solaris-i586-16_jun_2004.sh, 42.11 MB)
       Linux Platform
                               Linux self-extracting file (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-linux-i586-16_jun_2004.bin, 43.67 MB)
       Linux AMD64 Platform
                               Linux AMD64 self-extracting file (jdk-1_5_0-beta3-bin-b56-linux-amd64-16_jun_2004.bin, 39.81 MB)

[eduar09]

Abuse,

Just a guess.. but from the quote, it shows the Windows AMD64 build as being a tar file.. which is uncompressed. All the other files use some sort of compression in them.