I recently read in a book on a Java-based technology that one can determine if the JDK is installed by running java -version and looking for the the Strings “Client” or “Server” in the output of the ...

With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

On January 13 th 2011, Mark Reinhold – chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle – announced on the jdk7-dev mailing list: “The JDK 7 Project has reached a major milestone: It is ...

There’s nothing worse than installing your favorite Java-based application — such as Minecraft, Maven, Jenkins or Apache Pig — only to run into a JAVA_HOME is ...