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By John K. Waters
Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 17 this week, the second Long-Term Support release since JDK 11.
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Redmond has been promoting Java to its developer community for a while now, but it recently began pumping up its Java push on several fronts, including promoting new guidance for devs using the popular programming language on its Azure cloud computing platform.
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By John K. Waters
Embedded and IoT solutions provider MicroEJ releases its MICROEJ Kifaru JavaScript framework for embedded development to open source.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft has amped up its support of Java developers by expanding its participation in the Eclipse Foundation to become a Strategic Member, the company announced this week.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation announces the formation of the Eclipse IDE Working Group, a new community-driven initiative that will "support the continued evolution, adoption, and sustainability of the Eclipse IDE suite of products, related technologies, and ecosystem."
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By John K. Waters
Lightbend's new Akka Serverless is based on a new architecture that removes limitations that have, historically, prevented the development of general-purpose applications using the serverless model.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle's new Java Management Service (JMS) is a cloud native infrastructure service for the management of Java runtimes and applications, both on-premises and in the cloud.
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IBM and Microsoft announce the availability of a jointly developed solution for running the network deployment of IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on Azure Linux-based virtual machines (VMs).
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group announced the release of the Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform and Web Profile specifications and related TCKs this week.
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The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code is focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features.
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By John K. Waters
JetBrains announcs the first Kotlin feature release of the year, Kotlin 1.5.0, which comes with a host of stable new features, including JVM records, sealed interfaces, inline classes, and the new default JVM IR compiler.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation's Native Working Group announces the release of Eclipse ioFog 2.0, an open-source solution for deploying and orchestrating containerized cloud applications to the Edge.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java development tools and runtimes provider Azul has announced plans to unite its commercial products into a single Java platform.
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By John K. Waters
Object Computing announces the 1.0.0 release of the Micronaut Blueprint for JHipster, dubbed "MHipster," for Java developers, helping them deploy their applications to production quickly.
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Red Hat adds new functionality to Java for Visual Studio Code via a new language support extension.
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By John K. Waters
An update of the GraalVM high-performance Java environment, GraalVM 21.1, is now available, introduces new experimental binaries based on JDK 16.0.1.
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By John K. Waters
The decade-long battle between Google and Oracle over software copyright and fair use came to an end last week with the Supreme Court finding for Google. Two industry experts comment on the legal and ethical issues in the case and the potential consequences of the decision.
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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains announces updates of its popular IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment (IDE), its RubyMine IDE for Ruby on Rails (RoR), and a new coding collaboration service.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft gave Java developers a preview today of the new Microsoft build of OpenJDK, a Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of Redmond's version of the ubiquitous open-source Java dev kit.
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By John K. Waters
SCOTUS rules that Google did not commit copyright infringement when it used 37 Java APIs in its Android OS without Oracle's permission.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation announces the formation of the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group, a collaboration of vendors supporting the efforts of the Eclipse Adoptium Project, formerly known as AdoptOpenJDK.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation announced the release of the Eclipse Jetty 11 Java web server and servlet container, which is fully compatible with the Jakarta EE 9 Servlet specifications.
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The team supporting developers using the Java in Visual Studio Code editor has added a new Welcome Page to its support website that includes a new tour of important features.
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By John K. Waters
The general availability release of Java 16, set for March 16, comes with a long list of new features.
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By John K. Waters
RedMonk published its programming language ranking this week, with keen observations about Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, R, Kotlin, Rust, and Dart.