Every version of the Java platform specifies a range of supported versions. Here is the table of supported ranges at this time of writing (my version of this table differs from data in Sun’s docs ...

The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

There are some ways to get rid of older Java versions, but there's no easy path to doing so Users of Java are caught between a rock and a hard place. They often need an older version of Java to run ...

Large numbers of businesses are running outdated and insecure versions of Java and leaving themselves vulnerable to attack, a study has found. The majority of organisations, 82 percent, are running ...

BellSoft, one of the largest external contributors to OpenJDK announced on Tuesday a significant upgrade to its Liberica JDK Performance Edition, incorporating Java Virtual Machine technology from JDK ...