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Foil 8 Java/HotJava Alpha vs JDK Beta Situation -- Beta/1.0

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Version 1.0 of JDK released January 96 by JavaSoft
2 Beta/1.0 JDK should be the Internet standard and so compatible with ongoing Java implementations by all licensees, most notably Netscape. 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
  • tools for converting alpha applets to beta applets.
  • Source code for the interpreter
  • There is also no browser package and no beta HotJava yet --- current users are given an option to use Netscape2 or just preview beta applets using appletviewer and wait for beta/1.0 HotJava (with unknown release date).
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