Along with a number of security fixes, JDK 8 Update 40 (JDK 8u40) comes with improvements to the native packager, a new time-zone updater tool, new Nashorn optimizations and a bundled version of Java ...

Released in March 2014, JDK 8 has been succeeded by the September 2017 release of JDK 9. But JDK 8 will get updates for a longer time than either JDK 9 or JDK 10. Oracle is only slated to offer ...

The Java SE 8 spec is being built on the Java Language spec, the Java Virtual Machine spec and the Java SE APIs defined in Java SE 7. The new version of the Java core platform emphasizes three themes: ...

As I was thinking about the remaining differences between Java interfaces and abstract classes in a JDK 8 world, I decided to see what the Java Tutorial had to say on this.

Mathias Axelsson, Oracle's release manager for the JDK, has proposed the following dates for the JDK 8 development milestones. M1: April 24, 2012 M2: June 14, 2012 M3: July 30, 2012 M4: September ...

LTS versions arrive every three years. Oracle ended commercial support for Java 8 and the Oracle JDK 8 implementation of Java SE in January 2018. Serving Oracle's interests Red Hat's stewardship of ...

Installing Java JDK on Windows 10 To install it on Windows 10, follow these steps: Double-click on the Java JDK installer file that you downloaded. If prompted, click "Yes" to allow the installer ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

JDK 21's virtual threads are a major leap forward for Java's concurrency model. Previously, Java relied on OS threads, which were resource-heavy, limiting how many threads could run concurrently.