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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Java Development Kit (JDK) 11 is now generally available and ready for production use, bringing productivity improvements and an HTTP client API that implements HTTP/2. In Java 11, Oracle has ...

JDK 9 is now feature complete, Oracle Corp. announced last week, and the final date for the general availability of Java 9 Standard Edition is set for July 27. Oracle reached its Feature Extension ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...