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 ...

Project Coin provides numerous “small language enhancements” as a subset of the new JDK 7 features. I recently blogged on Project Coin‘s switching on Strings and in this post I write about the new ...

Although the release late last month of Java SE 7 did not come off without a hitch — serious bugs turned up in the release candidate and had to be fixed in the Update 1 release — the platform ...

Oracle this week unveiled the first and probably only release candidate of the Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7), the next major release of the Java SE platform, and the first new version of Java to make ...

Oracle has dispelled rumors that the upcoming security update for Java 7 and those it will release in the future might not work on Windows XP. “We expect all versions of Java that were supported prior ...