By John K. Waters
Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 17 this week, the second Long-Term Support release since JDK 11.
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.
By John K. Waters
Embedded and IoT solutions provider MicroEJ releases its MICROEJ Kifaru JavaScript framework for embedded development to open source.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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).
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.
The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code is focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features.
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.
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.
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.