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 ...

Oracle has announced the release of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, Update 40 (JDK 8u40). This latest release of Oracle’s implementation of Java SE (Standard Edition), JDK 8u40, adds improvements to ...

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 ...

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Java has had plenty of bad press in recent years because of security issues. The upcoming release of Java has already been delayed, which was schedule to release September last year. But 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 ...

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 ...