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JavaTM Product Versioning Specification November 30, 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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