Java 1.2 & java 2

[Tony kunds]

Hi I tink this question is silly,but i am confused.

what is the difference between java1.2 and java2?
-thanks

[Reid M. Pinchback]

Marketing hype not being in sync with Sun's java developers. The developers were creating 1.2, and all of a sudden the marketing types started talking about "Java 2".
In other words, same kind of silliness as when people thought the millennium ended one year earlier than it did because a politician said something dumb.

[Jessica Sant]

.... wonder what Sun'll do when they actually get up to JDK 2.0 ....

[Tony kunds]

Do you guys mean java 1.2 is same as java2

[Corey McGlone]

Originally posted by Tony kunds:
Do you guys mean java 1.2 is same as java2

Yes - they are one in the same.

[Reid M. Pinchback]

Originally posted by Jessica Sant:
.... wonder what Sun'll do when they actually get up to JDK 2.0 ....

They'll probably do something wonderful like call it "Java 3".

[Corey McGlone]

Nah - I'd go for Java 2.2, which would (in the mind of a marketing person) equate to Java 2^2 which is Java 4! Talk about fast progress!

[Thomas Paul]

From what I have seen from Sun there is no plans to go to a J2SE 2.0 anytime in the near future. If they were ever going to do that, it should have been when they went from 1.1 to 1.2.

[Leif Huang]

As JLS states, an instance method can be overriden (not hidden) by an instance method only. And a static method can be hidden (not overriden) by a static method only.
Would someone please tell me what the difference between "overriden" and "hidden" is? What's the diff. when they are implemented actually in compile-time and runtime??? Thanks a lot.

[Corey McGlone]

Leif,
Please do not post the same question in multiple places - it's confusing and becomes irritating if done too often. You can find a reply to your question in this other thread where you asked it.
Corey