Sun Microsystems has taken one of the final steps on the road to keeping its promise to move its Java platform to open source, as announced at this week's JavaOne event. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications. It includes tools and libraries that enable developers to write, compile, and execute Java ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

Oracle has announced the release of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, Update 40 (JDK 8u40). This latest release of Oracle’s implementation of Java SE (Standard Edition), JDK 8u40, adds improvements to ...

Oracle on Wednesday is proposing some changes to the ways Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is produced and distributed, designed to make life easier for developers. The software giant is also ...

Java 12 arrives with switch expressions to improve coding and allow pattern matching, and raw string literals to simplify multiline expressions The production release of Java Development Kit 12, based ...