In this article, we will show you how to install OpenJDK 16 from the EPEL repository and Oracle OpenJDK 17 (the latest release) using binary packages in RHEL-based Linux distributions such as CentOS, Fedora, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux to develop and run Java applications.
Note: If you are looking for an open-source and free JDK version, install the OpenJDK which provides the same features and performance as Oracle JDK under the GPL license. If you want to develop software applications for Java, you need to install the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK), which comes with a complete JRE package with tools for developing, debugging, and monitoring Java applications and it is an Oracle’s supported Java SE (Standard Edition) version. You mostly need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), a collection of software components used to run Java applications on the Linux machine. To run Java-based applications, you must have Java installed on your server.
Java is a secure, stable, and well-known, general-purpose programming language and computing technology platform with many interconnected capabilities.
