RE: UserLinux & free runtimes for java applications

[David Holmes]

Not that it matters too much but ...

> a) There is no such thing as Java 2.0. There was a failed marketing
> effort by Sun to relabel JDK 1.2 as Java 2.

JDK 1.2 was the first SDK release from the Java 2 Platform Standard
Edition (J2SE). The "Java 2 Platform" whilst totally screwing up what
was originally a well-defined proposed versioning scheme, is a
distinct baseline for the various Java platforms (J2SE, J2ME, J2EE),
that essentially does little more than cut-off JDK 1.0x and JDK 1.1

I think the original point that was being made was that it was very
unclear what version of the Java platform Classpath was aiming to be
compatible with. The docs said 1.1 but in practice there were API's
ranging from 1.0 through to 1.4 (at least more recently). I'm not sure
what the stated aim for Classpath 1.0 is at present.

David Holmes