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JavaTM Product Versioning Specification

February 9, 1998


Introduction
Requirements
End Users
Product Support Organizations
Webmasters and Administrators
Product Developers
Problems of Evolution in Distributed Systems
Design for Evolution
Java Language Specification on Backwards Compatibility
Object Serialization Specification on Backwards Compatibility
Package Version Specification
Specification Versioning
Virtual Machine Versioning
Version Identification of the Java Runtime
Package Versioning
JAR Manifest Format
How Users Know What is Running
Rationale for Limiting Implementation Version Numbers to Identity

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