From: Roedy Green on
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:48:35 -0800 (PST), Andrew Thompson
<andrewthommo(a)gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>What does the new 1.6.0_11 SDK do for us the
>developer that any other 1.6 SDK lacks?

see the release notes at
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u11.html

The scariest thing is an incompatible change in UTF-8 format.

two new root certs.

some bugs fixed. The one that most interested me is fixing a problem
with Vista NVidia drivers. Java has given a number of weird rendering
artifacts on my machine.

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From: Pappy :-) on
If you feel like a little light reading, you can learn all about Java
version numbering here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/versioning/spec/versioningTOC.html

"Arne Vajh�j" <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
news:49347748$0$90273$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk...
> Roedy Green wrote:
>> see http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp to get the new
>> version 1.0.6_11 the JDK.
>
> Where does the 1.0. part comes from ?
>
> Arne


From: Lew on
Pappy :-) wrote:
> If you feel like a little light reading, you can learn all about Java
> version numbering here:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/versioning/spec/versioningTOC.html

Please do not top-post.

And in the referenced doc one will note that 1.0.6 is not mentioned.
Apparently you missed the abashed admission that it was a typo.

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Lew
From: Pappy :-) on
> Please do not top-post.

Opps, sorry it's been a while since I've been on any news groups.


From: Arne Vajhøj on
Pappy :-) wrote:
> "Arne Vajh�j" <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
> news:49347748$0$90273$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk...
>> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> see http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp to get the new
>>> version 1.0.6_11 the JDK.
>> Where does the 1.0. part comes from ?
> If you feel like a little light reading, you can learn all about Java
> version numbering here:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/versioning/spec/versioningTOC.html

We know about the version numbers.

The point is not SUN's numbering mess.

Arne