Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year.

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Oracle has made Java 16, also known as Oracle Java Development Kit 16, generally available, including 17 new enhancements to the platform aimed at further improving developer productivity. This latest ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

At its customer conference in Florida, BEA Systems fills in the details on its upcoming WebLogic Platform 8.1, and hopes Java developers will do more than just listen. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

This article is excerpted from Rails for Java Developers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, with permission of The Pragmatic Programmers. All rights reserved ...