In announcement today at the annual JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems has announced that the Java Development Kit (JDK) is now ready for liberation. Sun has been working towards releasing all of ...

How is Java made? Let’s take a look at the process for introducing new features to the platform, and at some of the big JDK enhancement projects on the horizon. Java is widely used and heavily relied ...

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The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, an open source kit for Java featuring "backported fixes and enhancements we deem important to our customers and our internal users," has reached general availability.

Now available for production use, Java 19 features structured concurrency, virtual threads, pattern matching for switch expressions, a vector API, and a Linux/RISC-V port. Java Development Kit 19, a ...