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 Java Runtime Environment spawns a JVM, which is a software layer that runs on top of a computer’s operating system, providing additional services specific to Java. Figure 1 illustrates this ...

According to Statista, more than 30% of the world’s developers used Java in 2023, and some of the largest companies in the world continue to use Java for software development.

A look at some of the best integrated development environments (IDEs) and code editors for Java software developers. Learn more.

The most exciting innovations of 2023 aimed at increasing Java performance in the cloud included such features as virtual threads and further development of the Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint API.

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Java uses a runtime platform and software development environment known as the Java Development Kit (JDK) for developing and running applications. It is one of the main languages used to build ...

Oracle of course acquired Java's then owner, Sun Microsystems, in 2009 saying Java was the most important software Oracle had ever acquired. Just over a year later it sued Google over its use of ...

Fortunately, there are plenty of both to go around for the Linux user looking for a Java-based development environment. In my last article, I raved about one such program, called Jedit. Jedit ...

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), also known as Java Runtime, is the part of the Java Development Kit that contains and orchestrates the set of tools and minimum requirements for executing a Java ...