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. In Java 11, Oracle has forked ...

Oracle today announced the general availability of JDK 11, the latest update of the reference implementation of the Java SE Platform, and the first Long Term Support (LTS) update under the company's ...

Java 12 arrives with switch expressions to improve coding and allow pattern matching, and raw string literals to simplify multiline expressions The production release of Java Development Kit 12, based ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

Version 16 of the Java Development Kit (JDK) is now in the Second Release Candidate Phase (RC2) and on track for an early March release. Mark Reinhold, chief architect of Oracle's Java Platform Group, ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Oracle released Java SE 7 Update 4 this week, which finally gives Mac owners the means to receive critical Java security patches at the same time they're available for users of Windows and Linux ...

JAVA_HOME is an operating system (OS) environment variable which can optionally be set after either the Java Development Kit (JDK) or the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. The JAVA_HOME ...