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

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Mon Dec 2 22:05:09 UTC 2013

On 12/02/2013 04:50 PM, Phil Race wrote:

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".

Yes, I understand that now. The question directed to me was whether we should remove the j2 from the names of the security libraries.

What I am not 100% sure is whether the 'j2' in those library names is from "Java 2". The 2 simply could have been a way to avoid naming clashes. IBM's JDK includes a pkcs11 library named libjpkcs11.so. Also, pkcs11 support and the libj2pkcs11.so library were not added to the JDK until 1.5, long after Java 2 was announced. Anyway, I'll go ask around and try to find out.

--Sean

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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