The new Java Development Kit (JDK 1.2) is currently in wide-spread beta, and is available for download by members of the Java Developer Connection from JavaSoft's Web site. Among the new APIs introduced in this version of the Java platform is the java2d API (part of JFC, the Java Foundation Classes), which provides support for two-dimensional graphics from within Java. This API is in Public bookmarkswith java-languagetutorialprogrammingimage