Future development plans

Please remember that all statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

IBM Developer Kits are made available with IBM Products such as AIX, zOS, and WebSphere. In addition, for the various Linux platforms, we intend to distribute the IBM Developer Kits with the leading Linux distributions on each platform. For each platform where the IBM Developer Kit is not available with a distribution, IBM will provide alternative access.

The most recent J2SE technology from IBM is the 5.0 level. Our implementation of version 5 includes significant functional enhancements as well as upgraded Java Virtual Machine and Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler capabilities. It is available on, or planned for, the following platforms:

• AIX -- PowerPC 32-bit and PowerPC 64-bit
• zOS 31-bit
• zOS 64-bit
• AS/400 on iSeries
• Windows 32-bit on IA32
• Linux 32-bit on IA32
• Windows 64-bit on AMD Opteron / Intel EM64T
• Linux 64-bit on AMD Opteron / Intel EM64T
• Linux on PowerPC -- both 32-bit and 64-bit
• Linux on zSeries -- 32-bit and 64-bit

The IBM SDK for Java is now available for early evaluation at the Java 6 Early Release Program web site.