![]() ![]() When version 1.6 come out, someone realized that having two numbers in the name was weird. But instead of reverting their change, they just decide to drop the "2" from the name of the individual products, which now get be "J2SE Development Kit 5.0 (JDK 5.0)" and "J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 (JRE 5.0)". The suits also realized that the development community was not picking up their renaming of the JDK. ![]() So now the platform is officially called "Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 5.0)". However, the "2" was retained in the name. So the Java platform got two versions - the product version "5" and the developer version "1.5" (Yes, the rule is explicitly mentioned - "drop the '1.'). When version 1.5 came out, the suits decided that they needed to "rebrand" the product. The JDK was officially renamed to "Java 2 Software Development Kit". The default "distribution" of the platform was given the moniker "standard" to contrast it with its siblings. The two products that were part of the platform were also given names:Īpparently the changes in version 1.2 so significant that they started calling the platform as Java 2. If you were a developer, you also knew the version, which was a normal "1.0" and later a "1.1". When Java was first released, it was apparently just called Java. ![]() It consists of two products - the software development kit, and the runtime environment. I know I wrote this for newbies, but I enjoy knowing things in full detail, so I hope this helps.Ī Brief and Maybe Incorrect History of Java Versions Now you know what they are and why they are there. Again, see above.Īfter your install, double check “C:\Program Files\Java” to see both these folders. Remember from above that JDK contains JRE, which makes sense if you know what they both are.
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