JDK 21, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase as declared by Mark Reinhold, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle.

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) ...

The first way is to download and install the JRE, which is a Java runtime environment and nothing else. The second way is to download and install the JDK, which provides both a Java runtime along with ...

Improved startup, CDS, and garbage collection Java 12 enhances the JDK build process to generate a default class data-sharing (CDS) archive, using the default class list, on 64-bit platforms.

JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 223 is a new JDK versioning scheme to make it easier to distinguish major, minor, and security releases. It's simpler, more intuitive, easier to parse, and aligns with c ...

Image: Shutterstock Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK ...

CORBA, Java EE, and JavaFX support will be removed, while just a handful of new features are being added—so far Now that Oracle has released Java Development Kit 10, the next version, JDK 11, is ...

This release comes with several enhancements for Java developers, including additional support for JDK 14, first-time support for JavaServer Faces 2.3, and two new "dark looks" (Dark Metal and Dark ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...