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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To run Java apps, open JAR files or compile some source code into bytecode you’ll need to ...

Whether you want to begin coding in Java or just wish to run Java apps, you first need to learn how to install Java. In this post, we’ll see how to do that. Why do you need to install Java?

Microsoft today introduced a new installer to make it easier to code with the No. 1 programming language, Java, in the No. 1 development environment, Visual Studio Code. With the rise in popularity of ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 24 is now available as a production release. A short-term support release of standard Java, JDK 24 will receive only six months of Premier-level support from Oracle, ...

JDK 9 is now feature complete, Oracle Corp. announced last week, and the final date for the general availability of Java 9 Standard Edition is set for July 27. Oracle reached its Feature Extension ...

Java 22 arrives with previews of scoped values, structured concurrency, stream gatherers, and the ability to execute multi-file programs. Java Development Kit 22, the next version of Java Standard ...