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.

Sun announced at JavaOne that the development kit for its Java Platform Standard Edition platform will be available to developers on an open-source basis with GPLv2 licensing.

The FreeBSD Foundation has released a binary distribution of the Java Development Kit for its Unix-based operating system, FreeBSD, marking the first time the operating system has sported native ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 11 is now generally available and ready for production use, bringing productivity improvements and an HTTP client API that implements HTTP/2.