May 9, 2007 Sun Microsystems has taken one of the final steps on the road to keeping its promise to move its Java platform to open source, as announced at this week's JavaOne event. The Santa Clara, ...

Oracle released a new version of the Java Development Kit, JDK 7 Update 40, with new performance and security enhancements.

Java SE, ME, and EE will all be available under GPLv2, the same license used by the Linux kernel. As before the announcement, commercial licenses will also be available.

The Java JDK is necessary for developing and running Java applications. It includes the most commonly used version of Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit. The Java SE Development Kit ...

This will start with JDK (Java SE Development Kit) 9. These OpenJDK builds will be produced and distributed on platforms popular with developers, such as Linux, macOS, and Windows on the x64 ...

For one, a loosening of Oracle’s control could entice other contributors to Java to participate more. Java development has had other participants, including IBM, Red Hat, and SAP.

The Apache Software Foundations has threatened to quit the Java governing body if Oracle continues to refuse a restriction-free source code test kit license for the Harmony Project.

If you look at Java SE 9, you’ll see there are some interesting things going on with the JDK. Obviously, it was delayed by an extra year, so it’s been three years in the making. But one of the things ...