To appreciate the benefits of Gradle, it helps to understand where it came from. When Gradle was first released in 2007, the Java ecosystem had already established several viable tools. Ant emerged in ...

Java on Visual Studio Code gets a new tool to its extension pack, while Java on Azure upgraded the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and more in new regular updates for both properties. [Click on image for ...

Gradle 7.0, the latest release of the popular software build tool leveraged in Android development and elsewhere, offers faster incremental builds as well as support for Java 16. With the Gradle 7.0 ...

The latest version of the Gradle open-source build automation tool, just announced, comes with a number of upgrades, bug fixes, and highly anticipated support for building and testing Java modules, ...

JEP 472，准备限制对 JNI 的使用（Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI），已经从 JDK 24 的 Candidate 状态提升到了 Proposed to Target 状态。这个 JNI 建议限制使用本质上不安全的 Java 本地接口（Java Native Interface，JNI），同时限制使用 JDK 22 提供的外部函数与内存（Foreign ...

The latest monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds a Gradle extension, simplifies Code Actions execution and leverages an "important milestone," the v1.0 release of a new language server ...

Java developers can now run Gradle builds with JDK 11. The latest milestone release of the popular open source build automation tool (Gradle 5.0) also comes with a production-ready Kotlin DSL, ...

This week's Java roundup for January 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: an update on milestone and GA release schedule for Jakarta EE 12; the January 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release ...