IBM recently introduced Open Liberty, an open source implementation of WebSphere Liberty that supports the latest Eclipse MicroProfile and Java EE APIs. Alasdair Nottingham, WebSphere and Liberty runtime architect at IBM, and Holly Cummins, technical lead…

Now that Google has endorsed Kotlin for Android development, Java-based mobile developers could become dinosaurs

Is it possible to make all Java applications crash by creating an empty folder? You know, “right-click, New, Folder, type folder name, Enter”? Yes, but that has to be a very special folder.

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java. Fittingly, the…

Last month, I wrote about NoSQL Options for Java Developers. I analyzed the data available from a variety of sources (Indeed jobs, GitHub stars, Stack Overfl...

When the subject of Java modules comes up in online discussions every so often, I get the sense that many people misunderstand what it is that modules are supposed to do. That's understandable, as the name 'modules' does not evoke the precise purpose of the…

Java 17 (released yesterday) comes with many new features and enhancements. However, most of those require code changes to benefit from. Except for performance. Simply switch your JDK ...

A look at how Java 17 stacks up against Kotlin and Scala for development teams in 2021, and an overview of popular JVM technologies.

Security focused static analysis tool for Android and Java applications.

ITS took another critical step to actively reduce vulnerable software that puts the University at increased risk for potential cyber-attacks. We recently completed a project to remove Java Runtime Environment (JRE) software from Windows devices that do not…

"I regret ever Open Sourcing Java, for so many reasons.... mostly since my daughter is now coding." facebook.com/jill.ratkevic/…

Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to...

Manifold - a Java language extension

Enhancements to the Java language you should know