The JRE creates the JVM and ensures dependencies are available to your programs. The JDK allows you to create Java programs that can be executed and run by the JVM and JRE.

The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

as topic.. what the difference between them. im curently setitng up a linux box for a bit of development (uni course related work using java) so which one should i use?

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.

Wondering what's included in the new Java 17 LTS release? Here's a list of all the changes made to the JDK between the Java 11 and Java 17 LTS releases.

Java has been one of the top two programming languages for the past 10 years. How has it stood the test of time? Good design and continuous innovation have a lot to do with it.

Programming languages: Java developers flock to Kotlin and ditch Oracle JDK for OpenJDK New survey reveals the most popular tools used by Java developers.

Maintainers of the Spring Framework project should prepare themselves for some challenges when Oracle's plan to speed up the cadence of JDK releases begins next year, says one of project's co-founders ...