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.

JDK 24 can be downloaded here. Plans call for JDK 24 to be followed in September by the next LTS release, JDK 25. With a warning upon use of memory-access methods in sun.misc.Unsafe, Java would ...

When it comes to non-LTS versions, Java 14 is the most popular, with 0.95% of use. Adoption of non-LTS versions of Java is extremely low, with only 2.7% of applications using one.

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 ...

When Java came out, there was all this legacy code people wanted to connect to. But at the time, we did not want to encourage developers to use dated languages and propagate those environments. So ...