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Foil 3 Availability of JDK 1.1

From Overview of JDK Version 1.1 Extensions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken
Suns page for Java Development Kit Downloads
The JDK 1.1 development system including the compiler is available for all platforms except MacOS by downloading from http://www.javasoft.com. JDK 1.1 includes
  • compiler javac, interpreter java, and appletviewer as before
  • additional tools
    • jar, for creating Java Archive files
    • javakey, for digital signatures
    • serialver, for verifying version of serialized object
    • native2ascii, for converting source files in other formats
    • other tools for RMI
Some features, such as JDBC, which were actually released over last year, are supported in current browsers such as Netscape 3.0. Most AWT stuff is currently only available in HotJava browser (or in JDK 1.1 appletviewer).

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