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Message: [QUOTE="John B. Matthews, post: 3698900"] Is it your intention to claim that "Google - millions of hits" is a meaningful metric of Java platform usage?[/QUOTE] Egad, no! I should have reiterated Arne's caveat. OTOH, the result is not entirely unexpected and parallels Arne's (considerable) experience. Yes, this is confounding; I was sticking with the developer version numbers: Indeed, such numbers are almost meaningless, yet strangely fascinating. Cf <[URL]http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html[/URL]> Here's a very rough measure of features/version from skimming the Java 1.5 API documentation (J2SE 5.0): <code> #!/bin/sh DIR=/Developer/Documentation/Java/docs ECHO=/bin/echo for ((i=0; i<=6; i++)) ; do ${ECHO} -n "Since 1.${i}: " grep -R "<DD>1.${i}" $DIR/* | wc -l done </code> <console> $ ./since.sh Since 1.0: 26 Since 1.1: 89 Since 1.2: 965 Since 1.3: 550 Since 1.4: 1384 Since 1.5: 1321 Since 1.6: 0 </console> [/QUOTE]