It looks like several Tigers are out there to eat you!

The J2SE-version-5-Tiger will be released around the Q4 of this year with many new features like annotations, generics, auto-boxing, varargs, for-each, enums, static imports, simplified threading, etc. There's a beta2 available today. However it looks like the J2SE 1.5 books are still being printed...

The other Tiger I'm (also) really looking forward to, is the next Mac OS X version following Panther. Yesterday Steve Jobs gave a great keynote during the Apple WWDC2004 conference which also takes place this week in San Francisco. Next to the over 150 new features, Tiger (which will get released around Q2 2005) will also support our own Java Tiger.

If Apple can combine the (highly speculated) G5 PowerBooks with the Tiger release I'm more than happy to throw my Dell out of the Window
While I'm planning to switch my hardware, I should probably also think to switch my wheels. At the JavaOne exhibition hall you can see a BMW 645i sports scar which has an embedded wide LCD screen, by Siemens VOD, completely written in Java. Next to that you can now also iPOD enable your BMW (or Mini) for a couple of hundred Euros... unfortunately only the models from 2002 onwards can get iPod enabled.... damn.
Maybe I should switch my "mobile" hardware sooner ?!

Java is really everywhere!

Stephan