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.

<tl;dr> To fix the Eclipse “No Java virtual machine was found” error, simply edit the eclipse-inst.ini file and add the -vm flag, which points it to the java utility in the JDK bin directory: ...

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 on Wednesday is proposing some changes to the ways Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is produced and distributed, designed to make life easier for developers.