J2SE 1.2 (JDK 1.2) (December 1998): Re-branded as 'Java 2' and renamed JDK to J2SE (Java 2 Standard Edition).JDK 1.1 (February 1997): Introduced AWT event model, inner class, JavaBean, JDBC, and RMI.
This article is based on the Oracle JDK ) (due to legacy), which is free for personal and development use but no longer free for commercial use. The Java Development Kit (JDK), officially named 'Java Platform Standard Edition' or 'Java SE', is needed for writing and running Java programs.Ĭurrently, the OpenJDK developed by Oracle and the Java community ) provides a free and open-source JDK official reference implementation.
