Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

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Oracle recently announced the new version numbering scheme for Java Standard Edition (SE). The new release numbering scheme has been devised for upcoming Java SE releases. “With the recent increase of ...

On Monday Sun Microsystems released Java Standard Edition (SE) for Business, a new subscription version of Java SE that offers companies features such as extended support, enterprise deployment tools, ...

Turning over the platform to an open source foundation could broaden the Java community, but don’t look for it to happen soon Now that Oracle wants to turn over leadership of enterprise Java’s (Java ...

Oracle is releasing a technology preview of Java SE 7 on Mac OS X and said it plans to release Java SE 7 on Mac OS X for developers in the second quarter of 2012 and a consumer version later that year ...

On 21 October 2008, Sun Microsystems released update 10 of its Java Platform Standard Edition 6, usually abbreviated to Java SE 6u10 or (using the internal version number for this update) release ...