What enhancements have been made for the ArcGIS Java Platform overall at 9.3.1?
ArcGIS for the Java platform is a complete geospatial platform for Java. It is complete from the aspect of its support at the all levels of the GIS enterprise: From the Desktop, to embedded systems, all the way through to the Server. Java programmers and technologists can engineer world-class GIS solutions from Java Standard Edition (SE) applications to the Java Enterprise Edition (EE) Applications and system integration, across all of ESRI’s supported platforms: Windows, Linux and Solaris. Up until 9.3.1, while the ArcObjects platform was available in Java to be consumed at all of these system tiers, customization and extensibility was not clearly supported, and was completely unsupported for the Linux and Solaris platforms. At 9.3.1, however, this has changed. At this release, the ArcGIS platform can be extended by Java developers using standard Java tools and deployment strategies. This technology allows for Java classes to be recognized within the ArcObjects processes as true COM o
