Talk:Java Platform: Difference between revisions

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:There is already a disambiguation at the top of [[Java programming language]]. I don't think there's need for one here. &ndash; [[User:Smyth|Smyth]]\^{<font color="gray">[[User_talk:Smyth|talk]]</font>} 15:10, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

::Wow, it's even worse than I thought then. I got to the page from a link using the word Java, so I didn't even notice this article is about a Java platform as opposed to the Java language. I now think the remedy is to put a wikilink to Java much higher up in the article than it currently is, so I will do that now. [[User:Spalding|Spalding]] 20:58, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

== Merge from [[Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition]] ==

The sections in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition article that list and summarize the packages are better served by the Javadoc API documentation and should be removed. (Compare {{Javadoc:SE}} to the list of packages in the article&mdash;the article is nearly a complete subset.) Once these are removed, there is very little left in the J2SE article.

The only really relevant thing that needs to be discussed regarding the platform is to describe the distinction between the platform and the language and explain what constitutes the platform, and that is well-discussed in this article. Therefore, this is less of a merge request (although some changes are probably necessary in this document) than a delete request for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition. This same logic probably also applies to the [[Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition]] and [[Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition]] pages, although there would be more content to merge into this article in those cases. I think all of the platform distinctions would be better discussed as sections in a single article. &ndash; [[User:Doug Bell|Doug Bell]] ^{[[User talk:Doug Bell|talk]]'''&bull;'''[[Special:Contributions/Doug Bell|contrib]]} 19:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)