Java Projects - Second Edition

Version numbers

Java versioning is constantly changing. It does not only mean that the version numbers are changing from one release to the other. That is kind of obvious; that is what version numbers are for, after all. In the case of Java, however, the structure of the version numbers is also changing. Java started with version 1.0 (surprise!) and then version 1.1 shortly followed. The next release was 1.2, and it was so much different from the previous versions that people started calling it Java 2. Then, we had Java 1.3 till Java 1.8. This was a stable period as far as we consider the structure of the version number. However, the next Java version was named Java 9 instead of 1.9 last year, in 2017. It makes sense, because after 22 years ...