Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s ...

Java SE is the version of Sun's Java Platform intended for developing and deploying applications for desktops and servers. It comprises the Java Development Kit toolset, and a collection of Java APIs, ...

Sun Microsystems releases Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10, known as Java SE 6u10. The update improves the usability and performance of Sun's Java Platform on desktop computers. Java SE 6u10 ...

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

Following a number of reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plug-in, Oracle has today released an emergency update to Java 7 as Apple updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_43.

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with ...

Oracle released Java SE 13, the latest version of the Standard Edition of Java, which brings new security, performance and stability features to the Java language and platform. The company also rolled ...

Developers can leverage the Java SE 7 release through a number of integrated development environments including the NetBeans IDE 7, Eclipse Indigo with Java SE 7 plug-in, and IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.

The GA version of Java SE 8 needs more work to improve the Java security model and has been pushed into the first quarter of 2014. A developer release is still promised in September, however.

Java Community Process chair Heather VanCura talks up efforts to keep Java up to speed with the needs of developers in the era of cloud and agile software development.