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 Platform Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8) and the latest Java SE Development Kit (JDK 8) became generally available last week, but Oracle added its official imprimatur to the release this week ...

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 ...

Oracle continues to work with the Java Community to advance the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). Developer builds are now available for the upcoming Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, which will ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Oracle has released a new version of its Java Development ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program. The ...

Oracle's debut of Java Standard Edition 7 in July was a significant event on several fronts. The release was the first major update to the development platform in nearly five years. It also marked the ...

Turning over the platform to an open source foundation could broaden the Java community, but don’t look for it to happen soon Now that Oracle wants to turn over leadership of enterprise Java’s (Java ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...