There's been 8 years between Java 1.0 and Java 5. It was probably too many release for the enterprise world. It took TEN years from Java 5 to Java 8. It was pro

There's been 8 years between Java 1.0 and Java 5. It was probably too many release for the enterprise world. It took TEN years from Java 5 to Java 8. It was probably due to the gap of Java 7 when Oracle bought Sun. Companies are also much more used to auto-upgradable software now, and the Moore law is over for desktops, hence everyone was awaiting for the Java 8 upgrade.