Java Code Names

Yesterday I was crawling web and
found some intersting things about java. Firstly when java was release
its name is Oak. After some time the creator of java found the name Java.

I found some of the intersting things like the code names of the reeases of the java which I am going to describe below.

VERSION CODE NAME RELEASE DATE

Version	Description of Code Name	Code Name	Date of Release
JDK 1.1.4		Sparkler	Sept 12, 1997
JDK 1.1.5		Pumpkin	Dec 3, 1997
JDK 1.1.6	A female character in Bible	Abigail	April 24, 1998
JDK 1.1.7	Roman cognomen used by several politicians	Brutus	Sept 28, 1998
JDK 1.1.8	Name of a person/Football club	Chelsea	April 8, 1999
J2SE 1.2	Playground	Playground	Dec 4, 1998
J2SE 1.2.1		(none)	March 30, 1999
J2SE 1.2.2		Cricket	July 8, 1999
J2SE 1.3		Kestrel	May 8, 2000
J2SE 1.3.1		Ladybird	May 17, 2001
J2SE 1.4.0		Merlin	Feb 13, 2002
J2SE 1.4.1		Hopper	Sept 16, 2002
J2SE 1.4.2		Mantis	June 26, 2003
J2SE 5.0 (1.5.0)		Tiger	Sept 29, 2004
Java SE 6		Mustang
Java SE 7		Dolphin

You can these names on the sun website.

Here
is the brief history of java. Some of you wanted to know that how many
packages are there in java when it is officially released well here are
the some facts.

Java 1.0 - 212 classes in 8 packages

Java 1.1 - 503 classes in 23 packages

Java 1.2/2.0 - 1,520 classes in 59 packages

Java 1.3 - 1842 classes in 76 packages

Java1.4 - 2991 classes in 135 packages

Java 5.0 - 3562 classes in 166 packages