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What are the major Java releases and their contents?

April 26, 2017Contents Java releases

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What are the major Java releases and their contents?

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[*] There have been three Java releases from Sun so far, plus a number of bugfix (dot-dot) releases. The releases are: o JDK 1.0.2 This was the release FCS in May 1996. It had some security fixes over JDK 1.0. o JDK 1.1 This release (Feb 1997) introduced a new event model in the window system. It also made JDBC support and beans support a standard feature. It changed and standardized the native code interface to JNI. It also introduced inner classes. o JDK 1.2 This release (Dec 1998) made the Swing library a standard feature. Swing is a set of rich platform-independent graphical components. It also introduced the Collections library, and Java 2D.