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 ...

The Java Runtime Environment provides a “container” for those elements and your code to run in. The JDK is the “compiler” that interprets the code itself and executes it.

Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

GraalVM allows Java, Scala, and Kotlin (which are based on the JVM), as well as JavaScript, Ruby, R, and Python, to run with zero interoperability overhead (such as serialization and deserialization).

Many Java compilers are available for use, but in this article, we use the Javac compiler included in Sun’s Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE is Sun’s new name for J2SE).

Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler Here’s an example of a feature included in Java 10 that’s not entirely ready for prime time, and that’s why it’s called experimental.

Compiling Java code to WebAssembly is an efficient way to get it running in a web browser, and you get a serious performance boost. Let's check it out.