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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.
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Microsoft continued to beef up its support for Java developers in both the cloud and its popular, open source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with new updates to Azure Spring Cloud.
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By John K. Waters
Netflix has open sourced its Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework for standalone and federated GraphQL services.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft releases a public preview of its Graph Java/Android SDK.
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By John K. Waters
JDK 16 is now in the Second Release Candidate Phase (RC2) and on track for an early March release.
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By John K. Waters
Foojay.io, the community site for developers who use, target, and run their applications on top of Java and OpenJDK, announced the companies who will make up its advisory board.
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By John K. Waters
JetBrains opens an Early Access Program for the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1, giving fans of the tool and chance to take this version for a pre-release build test drive.
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The Enterprise Edition of the GraalVM, Oracle's "universal virtual machine," is now available, free of charge, with a Java SE subscription, Oracle announced.
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By John K. Waters
ScaleOut Software makes life easier for Java, C#, and JavaScript devs with a new rules engine in its Digital Twin Streaming Service.
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Java apps earn higher security vulnerability score than .NET apps, a Contrast Lab report finds.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation's move to Europe continues apace with the formal establishment last week of its new international non-profit association in Brussels, Belgium.
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Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.
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By John K. Waters
A conversation with Bruno Souza, founder and leader of the Brazil-based SouJava, the largest Java user group in the world, about the Eclipse Jakarta EE 9 release and the evolution of the Java ecosystem.
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By John K. Waters
The MariaDB Corp., the company behind MariaDB, community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), today announced the general availability of the MariaDB Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) connector.
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By John K. Waters
Software development and collaboration tools provider Atlassian has announced four new features in its Jira Software Cloud designed to allow developers to visualize and measure progress "from idea through to production" across Atlassian and third-party tools.
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By John K. Waters
Instana announces the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group today announced the release of the Jakarta EE 9 Platform, Web Profile specifications, and related TCKs.
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By John K. Waters
Azul Systems and Payara have extended their agreement to ship Azul's Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK with Payara Platform Enterprise.
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By John K. Waters
The latest point release of Kotlin delivers fixes and performance improvements for existing features, along with new experimental features and a call from the Kotlin team for feedback.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle Labs announced the release of GraalVM 20.3, the final feature release for this year of the Community and Enterprise editions, and the first long-term support (LTS) release of GraalVM Enterprise.
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By John K. Waters
Specops Software sifted data from Ahrefs.com using its Google and YouTube search analytics tool to surface a list of the programming languages people most want to teach themselves. Python and Java topped that list.
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By John K. Waters
Azul Systems announces plans to deliver OpenJDK builds for the new Apple Silicon machines, giving developers native Java support for current and popular Java versions.
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By John K. Waters
Diffblue makes a free version of its AI-powered Java unit testing solution available for developers on open source software projects.
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By John K. Waters
This week, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation and the newly formed Reactive Foundation, Jonas Bonér and a veritable crowd of collaborators published an updated and expanded version of "The Reactive Manifesto" entitled "The Reactive Principles."
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By John K. Waters
Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions provider Instana adds PHP and Python to the list of languages supported by its continuous production profiler.