Update 14 — J2se 6

: Update 14 marked the first time the G1 collector was available to the public. It was designed to replace the Concurrent Mark-Sweep (CMS) collector, offering better predictability and reduced heap fragmentation through incremental compaction.

: Support was added for Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2 . J2Se 6 Update 14

Update 14 was essentially a "feature backport" release. By including G1 and compressed pointers, Sun gave developers a preview of the performance gains coming in Java 7 while maintaining the stable environment of Java 6. : Update 14 marked the first time the