Somewhere between a third and half of these complaints have been addressed as of Java 6, sometimes at not inconsiderable cost (generics, for example). But most

Somewhere between a third and half of these complaints have been addressed as of Java 6, sometimes at not inconsiderable cost (generics, for example). But most of the fundamental complaints--handling unboxed data, the need to constantly wrap data, the brittle standard libraries, the sheer irritation of using anonymous inner classes for closures--are all things I trip up against every damned day.