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Foil 40 JDK 1.0 -- The Java Development Kit!

From Introduction to Java to be used in (Scientific) Computing Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken


The beta version of Java, Version 1.0 of JDK released January 96 by JavaSoft.
JDK 1.0 becomes the Internet standard and so compatible with ongoing Java implementations by all licensees, most notably Netscape and Microsoft. Beta/1.0 JDK includes:
  • Java Compiler (.java to .class) for Sun Solaris and Windows NT/95 avaliable as .class itself (Javac written in Java) but no source
  • Java source for the foundation classes (modified and incompatible with alpha)
  • appletviewer to run/preview applets
  • Source code for the interpreter



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