Java, or the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), is owned and maintained by Oracle. According to the Java website: Java technology allows you to work and play in a secure computing environment. Java ...

How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java Oracle's silence about Java EE has brought developer community distrust to a fever pitch.

Problems with Oracle's Java 7 runtime may require OS X users to switch back to Java 6, but currently there is no direct means of doing so.

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications.

With the March 25 launch of Java 8, you can now download JDK 8, Oracle Java SE Embedded 8, Java ME SDK 8 Early Access 2, and Oracle Java ME Embedded 8 Early Access 2.

As enterprises reevaluate their Java strategy and migrate away from Oracle Java, many are turning to OpenJDK distributions.