The epics team is pleased to announce the Java Channel Access 2.1.6 release! 

http://jca.cosylab.com

JCA is an EPICS Channel Access library for Java. For more information 
concerning EPICS or Channel Access please refer to the <a 
href="http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics">EPICS Web pages</a> or read the <a 
href="http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/base/R3-14/4-docs/CAref.html">Channel 
Access manual (3.14)</a>. <p>This page does not provide any native JNI 
libraries used by JNI implemenation of JCA, they can be obtained from <a 
href="http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/SoftDist/swBCDA/jca/index.html">EPICS JCA 
page</a> or built from source distribution.</p> <p>In June 2004 CosyLab agreed 
to become the "official" maintainer of JCA.</p> 

Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o gov.aps.jca.event.DirectEventDispatcher - added exception handling of 
  exceptions thrown from user code. 
o Malformed JavaDocs fixed. 
o I fixed a bug that was overwriting memory in JNI.cpp. (fix provided by Tom 
  Pelaia) 

  Changes:

o Minor performance/memory improvement on enums types. 
o I added support for building and running JCA on Mac OS X. (update provided 
  by Tom Pelaia) 
o Simplified the OS scripts by using the EPICS environment variables to 
  eliminate the hard coded paths so users will no longer have to edit these 
  files for their setup. Now build system uses the EPICS_BASE_RELEASE and 
  EPICS_EXTENSIONS environment variables that EPICS users use for referencing 
  the EPICS base and extensions folders respectively. (update provided by Tom 
  Pelaia)  

Have fun!
-The epics team