We should note that before this long-running project, there were JDK Release Projects that released one feature and were then discontinued. More about Java SE 17 The JDK is the Java Development Kit, the full-featured SDK for Java.
And, just like for Oracle, the JDK Project will also deliver new feature releases every six months. Java SE Development Kit 18.0.2.1: The JDK includes tools useful for developing and testing programs written in the. Initially, it was based only on the JDK 7, but since Java 10, the open-source reference implementation of the Java SE platform is the responsibility of the JDK Project. We should emphasize that OpenJDK is an official reference implementation of a Java Standard Edition since version SE 7. Eclipse Adoptium provides prebuilt OpenJDK binaries from a fully open source set of build scripts and infrastructure.