Duke thinking What is this? The place to collaborate on an open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, and related projects. (Learn more.)
Duke plugging Download and install the open-source JDK 6 for Ubuntu 8.04 (or later), Fedora 9 (or later), or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. If you came here looking for Sun's JDK 6 product binaries for Solaris, Linux, or Windows, which are based largely on the same code, you can download them from java.sun.com.
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Duke hacking Hack on the JDK itself, right here in the growing OpenJDK Community: Browse the code on the web, get a source bundle or clone a Mercurial repository to make a local copy, read the tutorial on how to build and hack on the code with the NetBeans IDE, and contribute a patch to fix a bug, enhance an existing component, or define a new feature.
 
Announcements
2008/11/17 New Project approved: SCTP
2008/11/17 New Project approved: Locale Enhancement
2008/10/21 Project Proposal: SCTP
2008/09/29 Project Proposal: Locale Enhancement
2008/08/12 New Project approved: BSD Port
2008/08/12 New Project approved: Zero-Assembler Port
2008/08/01 Project Proposal: BSD Port
2008/08/01 Project Proposal: Zero-assembler port of OpenJDK
 
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