When was 'sound.jar incorporated in JRE?

[Andrew Thompson]

I have a sound.jar in each of my Java lib/ext directories.

I think it was put there by the JMF installer, but since
the installer has no 'uninstall' I am not able to check
that easily.

The sound.jar contains a bunch of com.sun sound classes,
and the entire javax.sound packages. The javax.sound
packages are *also* in the 1.5 rt.jar.

Can anybody who has never installed JMF confirm that
their stock standard 1.5 installs do *not* include sound.jar?

The JavaDocs (for 1.5) provide an @since of 1.3 on all
the sound packages. I have less than complete trust in
Sun's use of the @since attribute. Can anybody confirm
(preferably from experience) that the sound classes were
available in core J2SE as far back as 1.3?

Andrew T.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Andrew Thompson wrote:
....

..Can anybody confirm
(preferably from experience) that the sound classes were
available in core J2SE as far back as 1.3?

I confirmed Sun's '@since 1.3' statement.

(embarrassed) I just remembered that although I only
have 1.5 *installed* on this box - I had rt.jars from
1.1 through 1.4 'tucked away' on the system.

The javax.sound classes/packages were not in
the 1.2.2 runtime jar, but present in 1.3.1.

Andrew T.