
First time, it was called J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition). Internationalization and Unicode support originating from Taligent.JIT(Just In Time) compiler on Microsoft Windows platforms, produced for JavaSoft by Symantec.


Up to JDK 1.0.1, private and protected keywords could be used together to create yet another form of protection which used to act as a restriction to methods or variables mainly to subclasses of a given class. Its codename was Oak.The first stable version of JDK was JDK 1.0.2 and it was called Java 1. It was the first stable released version of Java. The supplied Java web browser was named WebRunner.

The Java Alpha and Beta was the first releasesbut they have highly unstable APIs and ABIs. Next → Java Version History JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)
