They are not updated with the latest security patches and are not recommended for use in production.įor production use Oracle recommends downloading the latest JDK and JRE versions and allowing auto-update. WARNING: These older versions of the JRE and JDK are provided to help developers debug issues in older systems.
The JDK includes tools useful for developing and testing programs written in the Java programming language and running on the Java TM platform. The JDK is a development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the Java programming language. Thank you for downloading this release of the Java TM Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK TM).
