Today, my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott published a scathing investigative report of how Oracle partners with shovelware companies in order to monetize the distribution of the Java JRE. Given that I work ...

The combination of the Java Virtual Machine (Java interpreter), the core class library and supporting files, all of which are required to run a Java program. See Java and Java Virtual Machine. THIS ...

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. The ...

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 ...

Update January 10, 2013: A zero-day exploit is in the wild, attacking fully patched versions of Java. You can protect yourself by disabling the Java plugin from your ...

Adobe Flash and Java are two downloads most of us have installed on our Windows computers, as they give us a richer internet and browsing experience. We have already seen how to manage Adobe Flash ...

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?