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 license for Oracle JDK 17 will revert to the Oracle Technology Network License Agreement in September, and users will have some decisions to make.

Oracle's JDK 8 Release Manager has offered assurances that this version the Java SE 8 Platform will ship in March, even with a few bugs.

Free is not a good dealOracle this week made Oracle JDK “available for free,” for personal, commercial and production use, including quarterly security updates, for a limited time. However ...

With the latest release of the JDK, Oracle has embarked upon a new Java versioning scheme. There has always been a disconnect between the branding of the Java product and the version of the underlying ...