JEP Draft 8283227, JDK Source Structure, an informational JEP type, describes the overall layout and structure of the JDK source code and related files in the JDK repository.

Programming languages: Java developers flock to Kotlin and ditch Oracle JDK for OpenJDK New survey reveals the most popular tools used by Java developers.

Stable values combine immutable state and flexible timing of initialization, enabling optimizations for user code previously available only to JDK code.

Oracle has announced it will drop support for the Java browser plug-in in the next release of the Java Development Kit, JDK 9, which is expected to be released in early 2017.