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Active 1 month ago. Viewed 12k times. All these versions are pretty confusing to someone new to Java. Improve this question. Peter Mortensen 29k 21 21 gold badges 97 97 silver badges bronze badges. Basically java went from 1. Relevant bugs.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The versioning is simply a mess: Java 1. Starting with Java 6, they've dropped the minor version and mostly but not completely, see output of java -version eliminated the traces of the old versioning scheme, but people have gotten used to it and continue to use it colloquially.
Starting with Java 9 or 10, the 1. X notation also disappeared from the output of java -version which caused some code that depended on parsing it to break , and people have pretty much stopped using it. We now have Java 15, Java 16, Java 17, etc. Improve this answer. Michael Borgwardt Michael Borgwardt k 75 75 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It really is a mess. Java 5 a. Improve this answer. Joachim Sauer Joachim Sauer The explanation for why Java 6 had so little changes seems to be at JSR page : it looks like back then, they were experimenting with idea of time-driven releases instead of feature-driven : "goal is to ship feature releases on a regular month cycle JoachimSauer yup, your answer sounds about right without these details "embedded".
Hey Axel, please do not feel bad, at all. Certainly let's blame the web! Why can't we republish the contet from Wikipedia here on PE? Why do we have to resort to copy and paste? Why is there no mechanism to display content from Wikipedia in pE? IMO this should be basic stuff. Imagine java 1. Which page will be kept uptodate? AndreasScheinert: the focus of Wikipedia is different from SE. The full Wikipedia article would definitely be too much information for this question. Also, I think that the licenses would not allow copy-and-paste of content.
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