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IMPORTANT FEATURES
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1990
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Green Project
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Sun decided to developed software that could be used
for electronic devices and the project called as green project head by james
gosling.
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1991
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ALPHA & BETA
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GreenTalk
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Electronic Device Programming
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1992
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The team verified the application of their new
language to manage a list of home appliances using a hand held device.
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1993
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The world wide web appeared on the internet and transformed the
text-based interface to a graphical rich environment.
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1994
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The team developed a new web browser called “hot
java” to locate and run applets.
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1995
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Oak was renamed to java as it did not survive “legal” registration. Many
companies such as netscape and Microsoft announced their support for.
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1996
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JDK 1.0
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Oak
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Java language is now famous for internet programming
as well as a general purpose OO language.
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1996
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JDK 1.0.1
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java
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The first stable version, JDK 1.0.2, is called Java 1
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1997
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JDK 1.1
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Reflection, JDBC, inner classes, RMI
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1998
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JDK 1.2
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PLAYGROUND
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COLLECTION, jit string memory map
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1999
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J2SE & J2EE
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Sun releases java 2 platform standard edition (J2SE)
& enterprise edition (J2EE)
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2000
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J2SE 1.3
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KESTREL
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Java sound, java indexing, jndi
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2002
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J2SE 1.4
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MERLIN
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Assert, regex, exception chaining
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2004
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J2SE 5.0
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TIGER
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Generics, autoboxing, enums
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2006
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JAVA SE 6
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MUSTANG
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Jdbc 4.0, java compiler api, annotations
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2011
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JAVA SE 7
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DOLPHIN
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String in switch case, exception handling new way
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2014
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JAVA SE 8
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SPIDER
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Current Version
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Sep 21, 2017
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JAVA SE 9
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include better support for multi-gigabyte heaps, better native code
integration, and a self-tuning JVM
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NA
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JAVA SE 10
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There is speculation of introducing objects without
identity as well as moving towards 64-bit addressable arrays to
support large data sets.
Money and Currency API
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