Proposal: Newer version-string scheme for the Java SE Platform and the JDK

[Jaikiran Pai]

 >> (1) Bearing in mind that no version-string scheme is ideal,is this 
scheme acceptable?

Yes.

On a related note, how do these new proposed changes fit in with the 
newly introduced (since Java 9) Runtime.Version class[1]? Given that the 
javadoc and even the API names make use of the terms major(), minor() 
etc... will they (the methods) be deprecated and these new named methods 
introduced?

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.Version.html

-Jaikiran