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 ...

What do developers love most about Java? For many, it’s how it manages to be so reliable (think Toyota) while still able to handle everything from parallel graph analytics to bleeding-edge finance ...

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 ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note: The original 1995 white paper on Java’s 7 benefits actually said that “Java is interpreted ...

Oracle has announced general availability of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, its reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec. Rolling out in line with Oracle's six-monthly release ...

The latest Java Development Kit (JDK) delivers new features, including two new highly anticipated preview features—Pattern Matching for instance of (JEP 305) and Records (JEP 359), as well as a second ...

Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) version, is now at release candidate (RC) stage with general availability scheduled for September 16.… The RC release is the first of two, with the second set for ...

For a language that turned 30 last year, Java has a stubborn habit of refusing the obituary. At JavaOne 2026, Oracle’s message was not that Java needs reinvention so much as repositioning. The ...

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types. This article wraps up my three-part ...