On Mar 22, 12:15 pm, Nathan<nathan.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sigh... forgive my imperfect wording. I did mean the JRE being
targeted, not the JDK - apologies.
For a Java component developer it is useful information to know which
JRE version is commonly targeted. I am aware that a lot of developers
are working with 1.5 now. I am mostly curious about how many have
switched to 1.6 already.
This depends heavily on the target platform. The statistics for the
Java plugin are available at
<http://www.statowl.com/java.php>
which I found via
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Java+version+statistics>
These guys assert that in February, 2010, roughly 64% of browsers have
Java 6, roughly 12.5% have Java 5, nearly 20% were unknown, and the
other nearly 4% had Java 1.4 or earlier. This is consistent with the
fact that Java 5 is about five-and-a-half years old and all version
from Java 5 on back have passed their End-of-Service-Life periods, and
the fact that for browsers it's both relatively easy to stay current
with Java and relatively common for people to stay current with their
browser versions.