So what’s special answer to sacred question? Well, I haven’t got all ideas, but I know of six billion human souls out there who I’m sure would have an opinion if you asked them. Find out what people really want and need. Recently I wrote an article on how great it would be if we could get our News from multiple sources instead of one-to-many, top-down structure that feeds us so much negativity today. An opportunity to only read relevant News to individual’s liking also sounds like a great project to take on. Wouldn’t it also be great if we could communicate easily with others of similar interests? E.g.: Finding blogs and websites that interest us without having to search for days on end to find them!

These are just a couple ideas software masters could approach to make new revolution of collective consciousness and independent thinking a reality. I truly believe Internet could be gate of entry into a new dimension for average citizen of Earth, a dimension that thrives on sharing of knowledge from multiple perspectives, communication that involves everyone, and incredible access to individuals who you’ve always wanted to meet. Come on people, let’s get with program! Humans are a resilient, powerful race of creatures; it’s time to duplicate all this energy we’ve put into producing technology and put it into making it easily used by masses for positive means. The plant has grown into a tall healthy tree, now it’s time to harvest fruit of all our labor.

Well, so this “dilemma” is real and has to be looked after (you don’t stand a chance if you don’t). Many a times in java forums, you’ll find beginners with problem of “applet not initializing” and when compiling is targeted for 1.1, it runs. Preferably, developers should have latest version (despite huge bandwidth it’s going to cost you to download it) and they should try and keep their apps designed, if possible, for lower versions for a universal application. Although, this might not necessarily be imposed for a long time, but certainly try and keep your apps designed by java 1.4 specifications for a few weeks, till most of users catch on with tiger. This should also give you sufficient time to upgrade your programming ability version also. A recent survey about java’s versions had about 260 respondents out of which about 15% didn’t know that java had versions, 8% preferred java as good old java (can’t believe it, me neither), 29% were happy, 32% wanted newer versions but wanted syntax of older versions to remain and only bugs being killed and rest were too confused to have an opinion.

On this note, its now entirely up to you to decide which is your cup of java. I’ve just got a book to learn to tame tiger and I’ll be using java 1.4 till I tame 1.5 good. So, I think it’ll be around October, when I start using 1.5 hoping (with crossed fingers) that most of users by then would be roaring with it.

I hope that this small article would help you make a decision about which version of java to use.