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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 17, 2005.

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March 23, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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August 8, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 15, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
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Versions?

This article has a section on 'editions' (SE, ME, etc). But nothing on the differences between versions. Java 1.7 (and 1.8, though not yet finalized) is in some ways quite a different languages from 1.0. Does anyone think there ought to be a 'Versions' section with brief notes on the main changes (or perhaps just the language changes) in each version? These could include links to information on the relevant topic elsewhere on WP.

List of Java Frameworks

Please add the page "List of Java Frameworks" to the "see also" section. 2003:C0:873B:8B00:E03F:D261:D63C:AB57 (talk) 10:35, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Java — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.189.246.214 (talk) 21:12, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Duke

Any background on the "mascot"? Who made it? What is it supposed to look like? Why "Duke"? --BjKa (talk) 11:51, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bring back the simple hello world program

It's unfortunate that this was removed. While the syntax can be relocated to a different wiki page, I believe it's valuable to have a small example of a Java program here. 87.173.237.209 (talk) 14:21, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]