Download the JDK for Java SE We’ll stick with Java SE for this introduction so that we can focus on the core JDK classes and technologies. To download the Java SE development kit, visit Oracle ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s ...

OpenJDK distributions have emerged as preferred alternatives to Oracle Java. These enterprise-ready solutions match Oracle Java SE's core capabilities (after all, Oracle Java is built using the same ...

It seems like every other day, Java has another security hole that everybody craps their pants over. Can you settle the Java debate for me once and for all? What is it, really? Is it the same as ...

Java got its start at the cusp of the internet revolution in the early 1990s. It was created by James Gosling and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems, who wanted to use a virtual machine and ...

The JDK is packaged with all of the libraries that are defined by Java SE. The standard APIs include packages for utilities, networking, input/output (I/O), cryptography and XML processing. The JDK ...