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Original authorsJames Gosling, Sun Microsystems
DeveloperOracle Corporation
ReleaseJanuary 23, 199612
Stable release26.0.2 (July 21, 20263) [±]
25.0.4 LTS (July 21, 20263) [±]
21.0.12 LTS (July 21, 20263) [±]
17.0.20 LTS (July 21, 20263) [±]
11.0.32 LTS (July 21, 20263) [±]
8u501 LTS (July 21, 20263) [±]
Written inJava, C++, C, assembly language4
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows 10+, Linux, macOS,5 and for old versions: Solaris
Platformx64, ARMv8, and for old versions: ARMv7, IA-32, SPARC (up to Java 14) (Java 8 includes 32-bit support for Windows – while no longer supported freely by Oracle for commercial use)5
Available inEnglish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish6
TypeSoftware platform
LicenseDual-license: GNU General Public License version 2 with classpath exception,7 and a proprietary license.8
Website• oracle .com /java /
• java .com
• dev .java

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Footnotes

  1. “JavaSoft ships Java 1.0” (Press release). Archived from the original on February 5, 2008. Retrieved February 9, 2016. ↩

  2. Ortiz, C. Enrique; Giguère, Éric (2001). Mobile Information Device Profile for Java 2 Micro Edition: Developer’s Guide (PDF). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0471034650. Retrieved May 30, 2012. ↩

  3. “Java Development Kit Releases”. Java.com. Retrieved July 30, 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. “HotSpot Group”. Openjdk.java.net. Retrieved February 9, 2016. ↩

  5. “Oracle JDK 8 and JRE 8 Certified System Configurations Contents”. Oracle.com. April 8, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2016. ↩ ↩2

  6. “Java SE 7 Supported Locales”. Oracle.com. Retrieved February 9, 2016. ↩

  7. “OpenJDK: GPLv2 + Classpath Exception”. Openjdk.java.net. April 1, 1989. Retrieved February 9, 2016. ↩

  8. “BCL For Java SE”. Oracle.com. April 2, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2016. ↩