That was somewhat different from the way the internal stuff was numbered. You'd still see "1.5" and "1.6" everywhere when you asked the JVM for it's version.

That was somewhat different from the way the internal stuff was numbered. You'd still see "1.5" and "1.6" everywhere when you asked the JVM for it's version. 8 was when the JVM started matching the marketing (IIRC, might have been 9).