End your tour of Java’s essential language features with Jeff’s introduction to Java 8’s method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates that every ...

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Programmers typically target a specific, long-term support release when they develop applications. That means for the past several years, most Java developers were limited to the Java 8 or Java 11 ...

Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) version, is now at release candidate (RC) stage with general availability scheduled for September 16.… The RC release is the first of two, with the second set for ...

A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

The release of Java SE 15 in Sept 2020 will introduce "sealed classes" (JEP 360) as a preview feature. A sealed class is a class or interface which restricts which other classes or interfaces may ...

Five years in the making, a Visual Studio Code extension providing Java language support from Red Hat has shipped in version 1.0. The Language Support for Java by Red Hat extension, like many in the ...

The general availability (GA) release of the Java 16 Platform (Java SE 16) and the Oracle Java Development Kit (Oracle JDK) is set for March 16. Oracle JDK 16 will be a short-term support release, ...

Java can handle large workloads, and even if it hits limitations, peripheral JVM languages such as Scala and Kotlin can pick up the slack. But in the world of data science, Java isn't always the go-to ...