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Marking a watershed moment for Java programmers, Oracle today is releasing JDK (Java Development Kit) 8, accommodating lambda expressions and representing a shift in how developers approach the ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

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An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Java is probably one of the most important bits of software your computer runs. It allows you to use everything from certain websites to certain ...

Oracle has quietly ended all support for Java on Windows XP. As a result, the quarterly security updates scheduled for July 15 will not include any fixes for Windows XP. In an FAQ on the Java site the ...

The Javadoc documentation for the Package class states: Package objects contain version information about the implementation and specification of a Java package. This versioning information is ...