In a recent blog post, I postulated that many individuals who are most vehemently in support of specific new features for the Java programming language probably owe at least a portion of this opinion ...

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 has been one of the more popular programming languages and computing platforms on the market since Sun Microsystems released it all the way back in 1995. The free-to-download platform has been ...

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 ...

NewJ Library for C++ implements Java language features and constructs in C++. This makes it possible to convert Java source code to C++ or to develop new C++ applications that take advantage of the ...

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 ...

IBM subsidiary Red Hat has released a new extension for Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. Language Support for Java by Red Hat, available on the VS Code Marketplace, ...

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types. This article wraps up my three-part ...