We are going to stand up a simple Java app in a VM on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Dockerize it, then remotely debug it and modify its code from Visual Studio Code running on a local host. We’ll ...

The Java Runtime Environment provides a “container” for those elements and your code to run in. The JDK is the “compiler” that interprets the code itself and executes it.

Software applications are today's basic operations layer for any corporation, and Java remains the dominant code for enterprise development.

This Bytecode can then be run by any device that has the “Java Virtual Machine” installed. Alternatively, the code can be translated by software installed onto your machine.

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program.