Get a hands-on look at Java preview features, such as the JDK 13 text blocks, with this video tutorial that lays out how to run and compile to proper code in five easy steps.

That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

Take advantage of Docker to ease Java development. Learn how to update a running Java codebase (without restarting the container) and to debug into a remotely running containerized Java app.

How to install Java on your computer To run Java apps, open JAR files or compile some source code into bytecode you’ll need to install Java. To download and install Java on Windows, MacOS or Ubuntu, ...

Both languages are open-source, which means they’re free and other people can add to the code libraries. Java is platform-independent and is compiled to bytecode with Java Virtual Machine, or JVM.