Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The latest long-term support (LTS) release of the JDK is Java 21, which was released in ...

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 ...

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.