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Annual developer skills report shows JavaScript overtaking Java, top developer pet peeves, biggest employer turn-offs, importance of work-life balance and much more.
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By John K. Waters
Alphabet's Google subsidiary has petitioned the Supreme Court to review its long-running copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of software interfaces.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat announced the general availability of the 7.2 release of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, which comes with greater compliance with Java Enterprise Edition 8, JDK 11, Java SE 11 and additional support for Microsoft Windows and enterprise Java microservices.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle has added some serious Internet of Things muscle to today's release of Java Card 3.1, with new features to address use cases across markets ranging from telecom and payments to cars and wearables.
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By John K. Waters
John talks to Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation, about the stewardship transition of enterprise Java to the foundation in 2018 and other Java-related challenges and what he sees coming for the Java community in 2019.
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Python continued its rise in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, clocking in at No. 3 in the January 2019 report and being named programming language of the year for 2018.
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By John K. Waters
Look for increased community collaboration, growth in polyglot environments, more iterative development styles and more.
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By John K. Waters
In the time-honored tradition of tech journalists everywhere, John reaches out to industry experts to see what's in store for his favorite programming language in the new year.
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Microsoft's oft-maligned Visual Basic .NET was the big mover in the December TIOBE index of programming language popularity -- and even TIOBE was surprised.
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By John K. Waters
The latest milestone release of the popular open source build automation tool comes with a production-ready Kotlin DSL, dependency version alignment, and task timeouts, among a long list enhancements and upgrades.
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By John K. Waters
The much-anticipated IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 update of the popular development environment comes with a range of new features, bug fixes, and early support for features in the upcoming Java 12.
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By John K. Waters
The recent announcement that Amazon Web Services will be providing Java developers with a no-cost, fully supported OpenJDK distribution came as welcome news in the face of Oracle's decision to end free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019.
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GitHub has identified three features that make a programming language popular in 2018.
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By John K. Waters
The new version is a major update and will be the first to provide support for Java EE 8 and Eclipse Jakarta EE.
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By John K. Waters
Gartner analyst Anne Thomas says combining the IBM and Red Hat teams eliminates some conflicts between the two organizations' enterprise Java activities, but she also warns of an almost inevitable decline in the total amount of resources allocated to supporting enterprise Java.
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By John K. Waters
Imperva has open sourced a new Java SDK designed to simplify interaction with Microsoft's Active Directory for small, medium and large development projects using LDAP.
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By John K. Waters
The EC oversees the work of the Expert Groups that define Java specifications, essentially guiding the evolution of Java.
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By John K. Waters
The event included a ton of Java content -- sessions, events, keynotes -- with some new tracks aimed at developers building databases-focused apps and MySQL developers. All in all, a very Java conference, and with the language and platform evolving in so many directions, it's probably the best we can hope for.
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By John K. Waters
IBM announced on Sunday plans to acquire leading enterprise open source software provider and long-time Java Community Process leader Red Hat in a $34 billion stock deal.