This draft is available for Maintenance Review as per Section 11 of the Java Community Process.

The Java Language Specification, Second Edition draft presented here includes all changes, clarifications and amendments made to the Java programming language since the publication of the first edition of the language specification in 1996.

Of particular note is the full integration of the changes made in the 1.1 release of the Java platform into the specification, especially nested classes and interfaces and floating-point semantics.

The new draft focuses exclusively on the Java programming language. Library and tool specifications included in the first edition now exist separately and are no longer included with the language specification.

• Java Language Specification, 2nd Edition
  (PDF file - 6,216,667 bytes).

Please send comments to jls-review@sun.com by April 5, 2000.

Note to Reviewers from the Authors:

We are aware of a fair number of typographical problems in the draft, such as blank pages or inconsistent page numbers. Reviewers should not be inordinately concerned with these issues. Rather, we are most interested in comments on the substance of the specification and the quality and clarity of presentation.

We regret that the current draft does not contain an index. Rest assured that the final version will.

• JSR 901 Change Log