The JDK contains a set of compilers and related tools for the Java language, as well as the JVM and its diagnostic tools. The JVM works with bytecodes and converts them into machine code.

JDK 21, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of 15 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four ...

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code. Startup times for Java applications would ...

Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 17 this week, the second Long-Term Support release since JDK 11.

Oracle has announced it will drop support for the Java browser plug-in in the next release of the Java Development Kit, JDK 9, which is expected to be released in early 2017.

This release implements 14 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals), which are, as the name specifies, proposed enhancements to the JDK code base. They're similar to the JSRs (Java Specification Requests) of ...