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The first version was relpressreleased on January 23, 1996.<ref name="pr10">{{cite press release|url=http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1996-01/sunflash.960123.10561.xml |title=JavaSoft ships Java 1.0 |access-date=2008-02-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310235103/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1996-01/sunflash.960123.10561.xml |archive-date=March 10, 2007}}</ref><ref name=JavaHistory>{{cite book |last1=Ortiz |first1=C. Enrique |last2=Giguère |first2=Éric |title=Mobile Information Device Profile for Java 2 Micro Edition: Developer's Guide |year=2001 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=978-0-471-03465-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/mobileinformatio0000orti |access-date=May 30, 2012 |url-access=registration }}</ref> The first stable version, JDK 1.0.2, is called Java 1.<ref name=JavaHistory/>