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The Java language has undergone several changes since JDK 1.0 as well as numerous additions of classes and packages to the standard library.Since J2SE 1.4, the evolution of the Java language has been governed by the Java Community Process (JCP), which uses Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to propose and specify additions and changes to the Java platform.
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). [2] It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006, four years before the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
The JDK also comes with a complete Java Runtime Environment (JRE), usually called a private runtime, due to the fact that it is separated from the "regular" JRE and has extra contents. It consists of a Java virtual machine and all of the class libraries present in the production environment, as well as additional libraries only useful to ...
GraalVM for JDK 22.0.1 [4] 16 April 2024; 8 months ago () Free GPL version 2 only HotSpot, OpenJDK edition Sun Microsystems, Oracle: 27 April 1999 jdk-16 16 March 2021 Free GPL version 2 only HotSpot, Oracle JDK edition Sun Microsystems, Oracle: 27 April 1999 jdk 16 16 March 2021 Free Proprietary: HotSpot, Java SE embedded edition
The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) released by Oracle is a freely available software distribution containing a stand-alone JVM (HotSpot), the Java standard library (Java Class Library), a configuration tool, and—until its discontinuation in JDK 9—a browser plug-in
GraalVM for JDK 20 2023-06-13 Oracle JDK 20.0.1 OpenJDK 20.0.1 GraalVM for JDK 21 2023-09-19 Oracle JDK 21 OpenJDK 21 This release brought all Java SE 21 features to GraalVM such as virtual threads from Project Loom. Performance improvements in this release made ahead-of-time compiled Java applications run at peak performance as on HotSpot.
The platform was known as Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition or J2SE from version 1.2, until the name was changed to Java Platform, Standard Edition or Java SE in version 1.5.
Java version overview Version Type Class file format version [1] Release date End of public updates (free) End of extended support (paid) JDK 1.0: 45 [2]: 23rd January 1996