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By John K. Waters
The OpenJS Foundation announces Node.js 21, the latest release line of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment and library for running web applications outside the client's browser.
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By John K. Waters
The latest implementation of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK) has arrived. Oracle JDK 21 is a long-term support release (LTS) focused on serious performance improvements, stability enhancements, and security upgrades.
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Dev toolmaker JetBrains has created a new IDE called RustRover designed specifically for the Rust system programming language.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle announces new Java-based deployment tech, GraalOS, that uses the Oracle GraalVM Native Image to run apps as native machine executables to take advantage of the latest features of Arm and Intel processors on Oracle OCI.
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By John K. Waters
VMware unveils a new the Spring AI project, which aims to streamline the development of Java apps that incorporate AI functionality.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul announces ReadyNow Orchestrator, a new feature of its Platform Prime designed to reduce warmup time for Java applications.
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By John K. Waters
IBM is set to preview the 'Watsonx Code Assistant for Z,' which is designed to speed up the translation of COBOL to Java on the company's line of z/Architecture mainframes.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft recently announced the availability of its Reliable Web App Pattern for Java Tomcat--a potentially powerful move to attract more Java developers to its Azure cloud platform.
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By John K. Waters
Waratek combines a Log4J Vulnerability Scanner and API security in its Java Security Platform to provide users with the ability to scale strategic risk mitigation in the enterprise.
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By John K. Waters
BellSoft releases version 23.0 of its Liberica Native Image Kit (NIK) with new features, including ParallelGC.
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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains has released a new version of its IDE for test automation, Aqua, adding support for the open-source Playwright and Cypress web app testing frameworks.
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By John K. Waters
The community behind the open-source Apache Pulsar all-in-one messaging and streaming platform has announced its first long-term support (LTS) release: Pulsar 3.0. This is the first of what the community promises is a new, faster release cadence.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul has announced that its Zulu downstream distribution of OpenJDK now supports Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) functionality.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation and the Adoptium Working Group claim that the chief impact of its new licensing fee structures is a significant increase in momentum for the global open-source Java ecosystem.
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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains has announced the 2023.1 versions of its three integrated development environments: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, and RubyMine.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle's latest release of its reference implementation of the Java SE platform, Oracle JDK 20, includes seven JEPs comprising thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements.
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By John K. Waters
Grade, Inc., the company behind the commercial version of the open-source Gradle build automation tool, Gradle Enterprise, has announced the acquisition of Swiss-based software development technology provider Triplequote.
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By John K. Waters
Payara, the company behind the popular fork of the open-source GlassFish application server, has joined the Eclipse Foundation's MicroProfile Working Group.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat's Quarkus team rang in the New Year with the release of Quarkus 2.15.3.Final. This version contains bug fixes and documentation improvements for the 2.15 release train.
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By John K. Waters
The departure of James Gosling, the father of Java, from Twitter prompted our columnist to get up to speed on decentralized social media networks, starting with the one generating the most buzz: Mastodon.
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By John K. Waters
Code Intelligence's CI Fuzz CLI tool now allows to Java developers to incorporate fuzz testing into their existing JUnit setups.
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By John K. Waters
AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.
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By John K. Waters
In-memory database solutions provider ScaleOut Software introduces a new Java client API for its ScaleOut StateServer distributed caching platform.
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The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code for Java comes with updates in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to the Java 19 preview of Virtual Threads in Project Loom.
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By John K. Waters
New Relic's just released "2022 State of Logs Report" captured data gathered from millions of applications within its observability platform, and half of all logs ingested by language agents came from Java.