J2SE 5: New wine in new bottle with old cork
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 rename it as Java 5. The associated product is the Java 2 Platform (same old platform), Standard Edition (J2SE) version 5.0. Why is this flip-flop?
Java is mature enough to be in version 5. Why does marketing keep switching between version numbers?
This can be terribly confusing for any newcomer.
Also the marketing message needs to clearly disambiguate between the platform and the language.
PS. A good step for Java 6 (or is it Java 1.6 again?) would be to cut the number of JSR's in half and finally add possibly 25-30% of it in the final release. That way we can get rid of several frivolous JSR's.
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March 15th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
You’ll have to forgive those marketing folks… They eventually have to do something visible to justify their paycheck.
March 16th, 2005 at 6:33 am
I HOPE U WILL HELP ME REGARDING ONE PROBLEM I AM FACING WHEN TRYING TO INSTALL JDK1.5 UPDATE 2 FOR SDK . I AM GETTING A PROBLEM WHICH SAYS” “DATACAB1″ IS CORRUPT DUE TO NETWORK TRANSMISSION TRY TO HAVE ANOTHER COPY”. NOW I HAVD ALREADY TRIED TO DOWNLOAD THAT FILE FROM SUN WEB SITE TWICE BUT BOTH TIMES I AM GETG THE SAME PROBLEM. IF U COULD HELP ME IN TROUBLE SHOOTING THIS PROBLEM OR SUGGESTING ME ANY OTHER WAY TO INSATLL JDK1.5.
MY E MAIL IS ER_RAVITRIVEDI@HOTMAIL.COM. HOPE I WILL GET A REPLY FROM YOU.
March 17th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
Well said Sebastian
@Ravi The problem is exactly that. The file download is getting corrupted. You can use the provided hashkey to ensure that the file is downloaded properly. Is the file size correct?
Are you using any download manager, which one? By default JDK downloads using Internet Explorer (assuming you are using that). You need to actually copy the URL and download it using a download manager like DAP.
If everything fails I can provide you a download link to my server (to jdk1.5). Let me know.
April 29th, 2005 at 1:09 am
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