Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

Microsoft has released a new programming tool aimed at attracting Java developers to its .Net software strategy. At its Tech Ed 2002 Europe developer conference Monday, Microsoft released the final ...

2024 Java Developer Productivity Report finds most companies plan to add Java developers this year, though most tool budgets not rising. Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said ...

ROME—“We’re living in a golden age for developers,” Oracle’s Bob Quillin told the audience. “It’s quite the revolution, if you think about it. You can use the same technology that any large ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

.Net strategy turns up the heat in war for developer affections... Microsoft has launched a new web services programming language called Visual J# .Net in an attempt to lure developers away from ...

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 ...

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 ...