Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Futtorovic Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: 25 years ago, today Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 10:25:17 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 09:25:16 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="52a48d4ccf69b6cab569100fc31076b5"; logging-data="1789788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zffUNYYQSkrJH4U+lYgN4" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:/FkQTP9b6ybPA5/lygS7AaIXzQA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:44934 On 07/12/2023 15:06, Stefan Ram wrote: > 25 Years ago [1998-12-08], today [2023-12-08]: > > J2SE 1.2 was released. > > It had a JIT translator, "reflection" and "Collections". > "Swing" became part of the standard, and there was a plug in. > Instead of "1.2", now, "2" also was used. > > I've never known 1.2 -- came along just before 1.4. Which was Java 2, but also 1.4. :-) What an incredible ride! -- DF.