IPv6 support (Internet Protocol version 6).

Provided exception chaining (It allows an exception to encapsulate original lower-level exception).

It was the first Java platform which was released under the Java Community Process.

Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) included.JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface).RMI was modified to support optional compatibility with CORBA.Some additions were included to this version. Sun's JVM was equipped with a JIT compiler for the first time.

the Swing graphical API was integrated into the core classes.Java IDL, an IDL implementation for CORBA interoperability.It was a very important java release as it tripled the size of the Java platform to 1520 classes in 59 packages. It replaced JDK to recognize the base platform from J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) and J2ME(Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition). First time, it was called J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition). Internationalization and Unicode support originating from Taligent.JIT(Just In Time) compiler on Microsoft Windows platforms, produced for JavaSoft by Symantec.Reflection(which supported Introspection only, modification was not possible at runtime).In JDK 1.0.2, this capability has been removed. Up to JDK 1.0.1, private and protected keywords could be used together to create yet another form of protection which used to act as a restriction to methods or variables mainly to subclasses of a given class. Its codename was Oak.The first stable version of JDK was JDK 1.0.2 and it was called Java 1. It was the first stable released version of Java. The supplied Java web browser was named WebRunner. The Java Alpha and Beta was the first releasesbut they have highly unstable APIs and ABIs. Next → Java Version History JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)

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