Demonstrating its continued investment in the world's #1 programming language, Oracle today announced the release of the Java Development Kit 8, Update 40 . From small devices to smart cities ...

Latest release of the JVM language also features hundreds of new and improved extension methods including 10x faster arrays.

Java 8 will be offered via Java Development Kit 8. Java has had a plethora of bad news about security issues in recent years, with problems with Java in the browser of particular concern.

The Java Development Kit, with all the tools needed to compile and run Java applications, is distributed by the open source OpenJDK project. Developers can download and install JDK 24 for Java SE from ...