Java and version? 2

[serializer]

What is the "real" version of Java?

I have a path to Java that says:

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05

If I run java -version I get 1.6.0_05

If I check file version on java.exe I get 6.0.50.13.

If I go to java.com website and check version I get: "Version 6 Update 16"

Which version is it really?

 

[jaxtell]

They changed their naming convention. Java 1.5 is Java 5. Java 1.6 is Java 6. I'm not so sure about minor revisions.

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[TonHu]

The 1.6.0_05 is Java 6 Update 5. That's probably what's on your system. Then there's Version 6 Update 16, that's currently the latest release of the Java runtime environment (JRE), and the JDK (Java Developers Kit).
As jaxtell said, they renamed 1.5 to 5.0, to emphasize that it's the fifth major release of Java, (after 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4, 1.1 was just an 'update' to 1.0, adding some 'missing parts') but they kept the company-internal versioning to the 1.x range. And so the next major version had to be 6 (being 1.6 internally). And now there's a 7 around the corner...

HTH
TonHu

 

[serializer]

Thanks for the clarifications!