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.

Java Development Kit (JDK) 23, the latest update of standard Java, is now generally available.Major features and changes range from previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers ...

Oracle added the GraalVM Just-in-time (JIT) compiler as an experimental feature to Oracle JDK 23, its OpenJDK distribution, in September 2024. The GraalVM JIT compiler is faster than the standard Open ...

With atomic clock-like regularity, the latest version of Java, JDK 22, was released last week.Although this is not a long-term support (LTS) release, there is nothing to stop you from using it in ...

1. The Java compiler: javac. The javac utility is the most important command-line interface tool you will find in the JDK's bin directory. This is the Java compiler, and whether you use Maven, Gradle, ...

JDK 19 follows the March 22 arrival of JDK 18. Standard Java has been on a six-month release cadence for five years, with JDK 19 being the tenth six-month release. JDK 19 is available at oracle.com .