August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
14h 45m
English
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Software versioning
Software versioning is magic. Think about the different versions of Windows or Star Wars movies. Well, the latter is not really software versioning but it shows that the issue is very general. In the case of Java, versioning is not that complex. First of all, the version of Java we use now is 9. The previous version was 1.8, before that 1.7, and so on, down to 1.0. Earlier versions of Java were called Oak, but that is history. After all, who can tell what Java 2 was?
Fortunately, when we create a Java application, the situation is simpler. There has been a suggestion from Oracle, from the time of Java 1.3, about how to version JARs: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/extensions/versioning.html.
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