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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 (Hardy Heron). or Fedora 9. 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
2008/04/30 New Project approved: VisualVM Troubleshooting Tool
2008/04/28 New Project approved: XRender Graphics Pipeline
2008/04/28 New Project approved: More New I/O APIs for the Java Platform
2008/04/22 New Project approved: Closures for the Java Programming Language
2008/04/18 Project Proposal: Common VM Interface
2008/04/14 Project Proposal: More New I/O APIs for the Java Platform
2008/04/10 Project Proposal: XRender Java2D Pipeline
2008/04/09 Project Proposal: Closures for Java
 
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