Java has long been a powerhouse programming language thanks to its portability, robustness and extensive ecosystem. However, one major challenge for Java developers is interoperation with native code.

When the talk of the town is all about the latest Java platform release, it's easy to feel sorry for the legacy Java developer, who must now learn new language features and syntax enhancements that ...

Austin, Texas — Setting up a competition with Sun Microsystems' real-time Java effort, IBM Corp. researchers have developed a real-time Java platform that includes a garbage collector with claimed ...

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. "Java 19 brings the first preview of virtual threads to the Java ...

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, ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. The general-purpose, object-oriented language is designed to be written once; the code can be run on practically any ...

Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server. "With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made ...