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Dropped the support for older Win9x versions.After the release of this version, Java replaced the name J2SE to Java SE and dropped the. Java 6 can be installed Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006)

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Java 5.0 is the default version of Java installed on Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

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Windows Vista was the last version of Windows that J2SE 5 supported before going to end in October 2009. Java 5 was the last release of Java which officially supportedthe Microsoft Windows 9x line (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME).

Scanner class for parsing data from various input streams and buffers.

The concurrency utilities in package.

Swing: It provided a skinny look and feel.

Automatic stub generation for RMI objects.

There were also some improvements in standard libraries:

Improved semantics of execution for multi-threaded Java programs.

It provided compile-time (static) type safety for collections and eliminates the need for most typecasts.

J2SE 5.0added some significant new language features: Support and security updates for Java 5.0 ended on Novembut updates were available to paid Oracle customers until May 2015. This process also was released under the Java Community Process. So, it was changed to 5.0 to 'better reflect the level of maturity, stability, scalability and security of the J2SE'. It was originally numbered 1.5, which is still used as the internal version number. Support and security updates for Java 1.4 ended in October 2008.

Security and cryptography extensions (JCE, JSSE, JAAS) integrated.

XML parser and XSLT processor integrated.

Image I/O API for reading and writing images in formats like JPEG and PNG.

IPv6 support (Internet Protocol version 6).

Provided exception chaining (It allows an exception to encapsulate original lower-level exception).

It was the first Java platform which was released under the Java Community Process.

Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) included.

JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface).

RMI was modified to support optional compatibility with CORBA.

Some additions were included to this version.

Sun's JVM was equipped with a JIT compiler for the first time.

the Swing graphical API was integrated into the core classes.

Java IDL, an IDL implementation for CORBA interoperability.

It was a very important java release as it tripled the size of the Java platform to 1520 classes in 59 packages.

It replaced JDK to recognize the base platform from J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) and J2ME(Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition). First time, it was called J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition).

Internationalization and Unicode support originating from Taligent.

JIT(Just In Time) compiler on Microsoft Windows platforms, produced for JavaSoft by Symantec.

Reflection(which supported Introspection only, modification was not possible at runtime).

In JDK 1.0.2, this capability has been removed. Up to JDK 1.0.1, private and protected keywords could be used together to create yet another form of protection which used to act as a restriction to methods or variables mainly to subclasses of a given class. Its codename was Oak.The first stable version of JDK was JDK 1.0.2 and it was called Java 1. It was the first stable released version of Java. The supplied Java web browser was named WebRunner. The Java Alpha and Beta was the first releasesbut they have highly unstable APIs and ABIs. Next в†’ Java Version History JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)