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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.
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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.