Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are ...

Java 22 arrives with previews of scoped values, structured concurrency, stream gatherers, and the ability to execute multi-file programs. Java Development Kit 22, the next version of Java Standard ...