This new version of Sun's Java platform is "an exciting release for us because it's our first community release," said Jean Elliott, director of Developer Marketing at Sun.
The Java SE 6 release is the result of more than two years of industry-wide development involving open review, weekly builds and extensive collaboration between Sun engineers and more than 330 external developers, the company said.
Java SE 6 comes out of JSR (Java Specification Request) 270, known as the umbrella JSR for the Java SE 6 platform. And companies such as IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, BEA, Google and Intel joined Sun in shaping the technology.
In fact, more than 160 companies worked with Sun and tested their Java technology-based applications on the Java SE 6 platform to help ensure compatibility, stability and optimum performance for the Java SE 6 release.
