Sun Microsystems has taken one of the final steps on the road to keeping its promise to move its Java platform to open source, as announced at this week's JavaOne event. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications. It includes tools and libraries that enable developers to write, compile, and execute Java ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...

as free software under the GNU General Public License. Richard Stallman, creator of the GPL and founder of the Free Software Foundation, will endorse the move by video at a press conference Monday ...