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 new Java Modular Project type helps develop several JDK 9 modules in one Ant-based NetBeans project. With this project type, dependencies are managed by declaring exports and requires in ...

With developers ready to move from building Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to JDK 9, Oracle’s chief Java executive proposes to restrict merges between the two code lines. In an email posted to an ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

Java 9 -- better known as Java SE 9 Platform Specification, or Java SE 9 (JDK 9) -- comes nearly three years after the release of Java 8. In addition to Java 9, Oracle announced the availability of ...

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 is now planning to deprecate the Java browser plugin in its JDK 9 release due in September. It’s hard to say exactly when Java browser plugins will fully disappear, but if you’re using ...