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Year of release	Development
1996	JDK 1.0
1997	JDK 1.1
1998	SDK 1.2 (JDK renamed as SDK)
1999	SUN releases J2SE and J2EE
2000	J2SE  with  SDK 1.3
2002	J2SE  with  SDK 1.4
2004	J2SE 5.0  with  JDK 1.5
2006	Java SE 6 (or Java SE 1.6.0)

Java 2

• There is no such thing as Java 2.0 yet.

• The most recent version is 1.6. Java 1.2 contained significant changes to how graphical user interface elements are rendered in desktop applications with the addition of the Swing libraries (or Java Foundation Classes).

• Three days after they released this version as 1.2, Sun thought that the change was so significant that they should start referring to is as Java 2. But 1.2 already had a foothold in the market, so both names stuck. As a consequence, Java 2 still refers to subsequent releases, such as 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. 1.6  so on.

written by Anup \\ tags: Java Releases