JEP Draft 8283227, JDK Source Structure, an informational JEP type, describes the overall layout and structure of the JDK source code and related files in the JDK repository.

This post explains how to install Java or check which version is running on your machine. Install on any OS, and learn about the JDK.

The JDK contains a set of compilers and related tools for the Java language, as well as the JVM and its diagnostic tools. The JVM works with bytecodes and converts them into machine code.

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code.

Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 17 this week, the second Long-Term Support release since JDK 11.

Oracle has announced it will drop support for the Java browser plug-in in the next release of the Java Development Kit, JDK 9, which is expected to be released in early 2017.