Java Development Kit (JDK) 24 is now available as a production release. A short-term support release of standard Java, JDK 24 will receive only six months of Premier-level support from Oracle, ...

The drive towards newer Java versions and updated enterprise specifications isn’t just about keeping up with the latest tech; ...

Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software. For ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits ...

Programmers typically target a specific, long-term support release when they develop applications. That means for the past several years, most Java developers were limited to the Java 8 or Java 11 ...

With 10 million Java developers across the globe and 60 billion active Java virtual machines, of which 38 billion are on the cloud, Java is arguably one of the world’s most popular programming ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...