J2SE est mort, vive Java SE! (original) (raw)

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Mon Dec 2 21:50:28 UTC 2013

On 12/2/2013 1:28 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:

'j' sounds reasonable to me. However, I'm not really sure if the 'j2' here is from 'j2se', 'j2re', or 'j2sdk', I would have to ask some developers who did the original implementation. It could have been simply to help avoid naming clashes with other software using these names. A search for libjpkcs11.so brings up a few results. If that's the case, I would prefer to leave the names as is.

As Mark indicated its from a marketing name. When JDK 1.2 was shipped it branded as "Java 2".

It didn't mean version 1.2, it was just a name. Other names were considered too, I still remember the ripple of horror around the large, packed, room when the initial proposal was revealed but that was dropped in favour of Java 2.

-phil.

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