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 ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...