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With the 7-month-old Android N now installed on less than 3 percent of devices, the first developer preview of Android O has landed, with new functionality for saving battery life, getting a better handle on notifications and much more.
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The latest edition of the free Android Studio IDE for creating mobile apps with Java continues to build upon the Instant Run functionality for quicker builds of incremental code changes.
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By John K. Waters
The mainframe is at an inflection point from which it will either continue as a revenue-supporting machine or emerge as a revenue-generating platform, a new report states.
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By John K. Waters
Old vulnerabilities in both Java and Python that allow attackers to bypass firewalls and access local networks by injecting malicious commands inside FTP URLs resurfaced this week when two security researchers noticed that they remain unpatched.
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By John K. Waters
"It's my job to be controversial if that's what's needed, to make people take a step back and look at what's really going on."
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By John K. Waters
Oracle filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, seeking to overturn a federal jury's decision that Google's use of Java in its Android OS constituted fair use
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By John K. Waters
After ownership of the Model-View-Controller specification passes to the Java community, long-time contributor Ivar Grimstad will serve as a purely community spec lead for JSR 371, the MVC 1.0 standard.
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By John K. Waters
The final date for the general availability of Java 9 Standard Edition is set for July 27.
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By John K. Waters
In-memory data grid specialist Hazelcast launched a new distributed processing engine for data streams, targeting "the intersect of Big Data programmers and Java programmers."
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By John K. Waters
When Oracle publishes its next quarterly patch update in April, the company will begin treating JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as unsigned.
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By John K. Waters
Near-record Critical Patch Update provides fixes for 270 vulnerabilities across 45 products.
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By John K. Waters
Java security expert finds vulnerability especially serious and laments Oracle's fix: a user-configurable whitelist/blacklist filter.
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By John K. Waters
Researchers at Gartner dropped something of a bomb on the enterprise Java community just before the holidays in the form of a new report in which analysts claim, among other things, that Java EE is fading from relevance and those responsible for modernizing enterprise application infrastructure should "develop a strategy to deal with the obsolescence of Java EE and other three-tier application frameworks."
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By John K. Waters
Oracle has published the results of its Java EE Community Survey, in which nearly 1,700 Java users worldwide ranked the importance of 21 component technologies in the company's revised Java EE Roadmap.
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By John K. Waters
Netflix has announced a new Java library and toolkit for managing small- to medium-sized in-memory datasets that are disseminated from a single organization to multiple users for read-only access.
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Reza Rahman delivered the opening keynote at App Dev Trends 2016 Tuesday morning, giving attendees a deep, contextual history of enterprise Java and issuing something of a call to arms.
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By John K. Waters
Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge today released a new version of its flagship product.
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By John K. Waters
The 2.12 release of Scala, the type-safe programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), comes with a completely overhauled compiler, which allows the language to fully leverage the VM features in Java 8, the Scala team at Lightbend announced.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle Corp. has notified the Java community officially of its intention to withdraw the Java Specification Requests (JSRs) for the Java EE Management API 2.0 (JSR 373) and JMS 2.1 (JSR 368).
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Who sits on this committee matters to the Java community -- John reviews the election results.
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Kotlin 1.0.5 includes a number of bug fixes and tooling updates from version 1.0, including new support for postfix code completion in the IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
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By John K. Waters
Java continues to command the top spot on the latest TIOBE Programming Community Index, edging C, C++, C#, Python and Visual Basic .NET, in that order.
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By John K. Waters
John talks to a featured presenter at the upcoming AppDev Trends 2016 conference in Orlando.
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Google officially ended support for the Android Developer Tools plug-in that for a time turned Eclipse into the go-to platform for non-iOS mobile coders.
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By John K. Waters
Atlassian doesn't bill itself as a DevOps company, but it finds itself in the middle of the DevOps movement. Here's how it got there.