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 SE Development Kit consists of the Java compiler, tools for creating and managing JAR (Java Archive) files, and tools for managing and monitoring the JVM.

The Java Development Kit, with all the tools needed to compile and run Java applications, is distributed by the open source OpenJDK project. Developers can download and install JDK 24 for Java SE from ...

The production release of Java Development Kit 12, based on Java SE (Standard Edition) 12, is now available. JDK 12 builds are available from Oracle for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

The first beta builds are available, with switch expressions to improve coding and allow pattern matching, and raw string literals to simplify multiline expressions Java Development Kit 12, the next ...