Date: 03/15/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: java

J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform. At the same time Java 1.2 was also renamed as Java 2 (the language I presume). Then came 1.3 (note it was never called Java 3). Now we have Java 1.5. Suddenly the big guns at Sun decided to [...]

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