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Should I be using J2SE or J2EE?

Hi,

I am newbie of sorts with java - I come from Actionscript programming and I have found the transfer over to Java pretty easy (well kind of). I have been using java in eclipse for some time but I must admit I do not understand completely what version I am in and what version I should be working in and why.
Should I be working in J2SE or J2EE? I am currently working in J2SE 1.6.0, what about J2SE 5.0?
waffe

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Thanks lamaslany,
that clears up a bit of my confusion.

So I could program in J2SE for my application / applet and then use say .net or php for my server side applications instead of J2EE server side applications.

When you say "As for versions: 1.6 is newer than 1.5 (aka 5.0). ", are you saying that J2SE 1.6.0 is J2SE 5.0?

lamaslany

>>>So I could program in J2SE for my application / applet and then use say .net or php for my server side applications instead of J2EE server side applications.<<<
Yes.

>>>When you say "As for versions: 1.6 is newer than 1.5 (aka 5.0). ", are you saying that J2SE 1.6.0 is J2SE 5.0?<<<

J2SE 1.6.0 is newer than J2SE 1.5.0

J2SE 1.5.0 is sometimes referred to as J2SE 5.0
J2SE 1.6.0 is sometimes referred to as J2SE 6.0

To my mind when they jumped to Java 2 it would have been nice to refer to that as JSE 2.0.0. Of course that is quite a subjective opinion. ;)