This is the Final Release of this Specification, as described in Section 3.4 of the Java Community Process^SM Program, version 2.1.

• to download the specification for evaluation, click here:
  
• To download the specification for implementation, click here:
  
• J2SE 1.4
  

• Joshua Bloch
  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  Please send comments to assert-comments@eng.sun.com.

• Further detail about the RI and TCK is provided on the Merlin Final Release page.