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Microsoft has issued a "Call for Action" to Java developers using its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) source-code editor to make sure their code runs on Java 11 or above, soon.
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By John K. Waters
Based on the responses of several thousand enterprise developer, the survey provides a fascinating look at the growth of open source enterprise Java, as well as some details on what developer interest in things like microservices and platforms.
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By John K. Waters
The Jakarta EE 9 release marks the final transition away from the javax.* namespace (which Oracle refused to give up) to Eclipse's jakarta.*.
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As part of the first phase of the in-progress port, Microsoft will push its development work upstream to the OpenJDK project.
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The Java programming language continued to be the most popular primary programming language among developers during the past 12 months, according to a new survey, but Python topped the list of most used languages overall during that period.
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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains, creator of the Java dev fav IntelliJ IDEA, today unveiled the full public access preview of Big Data Tools, a new plugin designed to allow developers to work with Zeppelin notebooks, Spark applications, and S3 files from within that popular IDE.
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By John K. Waters
John shares the answers to three questions the folks at online course provider Pluralsight put to their Java course authors about Java's 25th anniversary.
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Red Hat announced that its Quarkus Kubernetes-native Java framework is now fully supported in Red Hat Runtimes. The move advances Java on Kubernetes, the IBM subsidiary said in a statement, “bridging the gap between traditional Java applications and cloud-native environments.”
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Milinkovich talks with ADTmag.com's John K. Waters about the reasons behind the jump across the pond for the organization's headquarters.
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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.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year.
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By John K. Waters
A new project just proposed for consideration on the OpenJDK mailing list would address the "long-term pain points" of Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance and large footprint.
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By John K. Waters
The latest Critical Patch Update (CPU) from Oracle, published today, addresses 397 security vulnerabilities across the company's product suite, including 15 patches for Java SE.
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By John K. Waters
John K. Waters talks with Red Hat's Sharples ahead of Java's silver anniversary.
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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1, a major update of its flagship code-centric Java IDE.
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Quarkus 1.3 isn't a major release, but it comes with some important infrastructure tweaks and a list of bug fixes.
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By John K. Waters
John K. Waters interviews Oracle execs about the latest Java release.
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Oracle this week announced the general availability of the Java Standard Edition 14 Platform (Java SE 14) and its open-source reference implementation, the Java Development Kit 14 (JDK 14).
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By John K. Waters
It's now available for download, just a week ahead of the release of Java 14 on March 17.
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By John K. Waters
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of NetBeans 11.3, the third update of the popular Java-based IDE in its recently implemented quarterly release cycle.
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Sonatype this week announced the availability of an enhanced suite of JavaScript intelligence capabilities designed to provide developers with improved accuracy, increased policy control and faster remediation of open source vulnerabilities.
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By John K. Waters
Apache Groovy 3.0, the latest version of the open source, general-purpose programming language for the Java platform, was released in mid-February with a number of new features and capabilities, chief among them a new parser.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft has released another update of its Java on Visual Studio Code, the package of extensions used by Redmond's lightweight source code editor to support Java coding, testing and debugging.
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By John K. Waters
Google has its supporters, too, 26 of whom filed briefs in January.
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By John K. Waters
"Google has a problem," Oracle stated in its filing. "It committed an egregious act of plagiarism and now needs to rewrite copyright law to justify it. It cannot."