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The information below presents data on Java 6, made available by Marc R. Hoffmann, from javaalmanac.io, provided under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Java 6

Version: 6 Release date: 2006-12-12 EOL date: 2018-10-16 bytecode: 50.0

Documentation: notes , vm , lang , api

Distro

TCK

Vendor

License

Platforms

Java SE Development Kit 6

Oracle

Commercial

linux:x86 /x64 /ia64 /

solaris:sparc /sparcv9 /x86 /x64 /

windows:x86 /x64 /ia64 /

Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK 6

Azul Systems

GPLv2+CE

linux:x86 /x64 /

windows:x64 /

Technology Compatibility Kit

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

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