Java 6 - foojay

The information below presents data on Java 6, made available by Marc R. Hoffmann, from javaalmanac.io.

Java versions:

16 ,
15 ,
14 ,
13 ,
12 ,
11 ,
10 ,
9 ,
8 ,
7 ,
6 ,
5 ,
1.4 ,
1.3 ,
1.2 ,
1.1 ,
1.0 .

Java 6

version: 6 Release date: 2006/12/11 EOL date: 2013/04/16 (Java SE 6 Update 45) bytecode: 50.0

Documentation: notes , vm , lang , api

Distro	Vendor	License	Platforms
Oracle JDK	Oracle	Commercial	linux-x86 linux-x64 solaris-sparc solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x86 solaris-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64
Zulu	Azul	Open Source	linux-x86 linux-x64 linux-ppc32spe linux-ppc32hf linux-ppc64 linux-aarch64 linux-arm32 macOS-x64 windows-x86 windows-x64 solaris-sparcv9 solaris-x86 solaris-x64

New Features

API

XML Digital Signatures (javax.xml.crypto.dsig) ( JSR 105 )
Streaming API for XML 1.0 (javax.xml.stream) ( JSR 173 )
Web Services Metadata (javax.jws) ( JSR 181 )
Java API for XML Processing 1.3 (javax.xml.*) ( JSR 206 )
JAXB 2.0 (javax.xml.bind) ( JSR 222 )
Scripting for the Java Platform (javax.script) ( JSR 223 )
XML-Based Web Services 2.0 (javax.xml.ws) ( JSR 224 )
Common Annotations (javax.annotations) ( JSR 250 )
Smart Card I/O (javax.smartcardio) ( JSR 268 )
Pluggable Annotation Processing (javax.lang.model) ( JSR 269 )
Java Activation Framework (javax.annotation) ( JDKIssue 6254474 )

Tools

javac supports java.lang.SuppressWarnings annotation ( JDKIssue 4986256 )

New APIs

Compare to Java:

base: version: 6 build 1.6.0_45

target version: 5 build 1.5.0_22