Java is both a programming language and a computing platform. The former allows you to develop applications and the latter allows you to run the applications that you, or others, develop.

Whether you want to begin coding in Java or just wish to run Java apps, you first need to learn how to install Java. In this post, we’ll see how to do that.

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications.

Oracle's newly released Java 7 runtime is relatively painless to install and uninstall.

The default-java folder is a symbolic link to the actual location of the JDK install on Ubuntu. When you reference the JDK install location in applications or in environment variables such as ...