That's straight out of wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#JDK_1.0_.28January_23.2C_1996.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_

That's straight out of wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#JDK_1.0_.28January_23.2C_1996.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#JDK_1.0_.2... Java version naming is a bit confusing, especially retrospectively. Starting with the release of JDK 1.2 (which was the third release, after 1.0.2 and 1.1) Sun started referring to everything as Java 2 (J2SE, J2EE, etc.). Presumably this means that there were two releases of Java 1, JDKs 1.0.2 and 1.1. After JDK 1.4 (still Java 2) was Java 5.0, after that was Java 6 which dropped the Java 2 nomenclature (now different versions are just JSE, JEE, and so on).