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.

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 ...

Azul supplies a number of different high-performance Java compilers, including Zing and Zulu (there is an embedded version of the latter). Azul’s latest offering is an updated version of Zing ...

August 28, 2006—Sun Microsystems has unveiled a portal that will detail its efforts to make its Java programming language available as open source code. After the announcement, Bob Brewin, Sun ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) provides the foundation upon which all applications that are targeted toward the Java platform are built. The JDK includes a variety of tools and utilities that perform ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. – While much of the EDA industry appears ready to embrace the SystemVerilog or SystemC language, startup Ontic Technologies Inc. is offering a different option: Java. The company is ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. launched a portal site for its Java programming language today as it inches closer to making the Java code open-source, a company executive said. The Web site details the ...

The latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. The 1.8 release was timed to coincide with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode ...

ZURICH—This alpine city is cool, efficient, and fun. Fittingly, so are the young software developers here who are fine-tuning a groundbreaking multilingual virtual machine. GraalVM may be an ...

The JDK also includes a number of programming tools, like a compiler and a Java web server, for programmers who need to install Java on Windows. Install prereqs The following prerequisites must be met ...