End your tour of Java’s essential language features with Jeff’s introduction to Java 8’s method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates that every ...

Java SE 13 (Sept 2019) introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second ...

The release of Java SE 15 in Sept 2020 will introduce "sealed classes" (JEP 360) as a preview feature. A sealed class is a class or interface which restricts which other classes or interfaces may ...

Oracle ORCL recently announced the release of Java 22, the newest version of the widely used programming language. This update brings a slew of improvements focused on making developers' lives easier ...

Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

Java has been one of the more popular programming languages and computing platforms on the market since Sun Microsystems released it all the way back in 1995. The free-to-download platform has been ...

A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

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The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) Groovy team recently announced the release of Groovy 4.0.0, the latest version of the open source, general-purpose programming language for the Java Virtual ...