Oracle recently announced the new version numbering scheme for Java Standard Edition (SE). The new release numbering scheme has been devised for upcoming Java SE releases.“With the recent increase ...

Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java.

This scheme is based on JEP 223 and was intended for future releases of the Java platform itself. However, almost immediately after the release Released Java 9 also introduced a new versioning scheme.

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