The Apache Foundation has proposed creating an open-source version of Java on the desktop, a plan that Sun Microsystems has initially welcomed. Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, ...

The open-source Java effort Apache Harmony has graduated to a full-fledged Apache project. Apache Harmony, started last year, is creating an open-source version of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java ...

OpenJDK 23 has been released on a six-monthly cycle. Like its predecessor, the release brings twelve Java Enhancement Proposals (JEP), most of which are in the preview phase. However, string templates ...

The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

IBM is participating on a limited basis in Project Harmony, the Apache Software Foundation's effort to create a compatible, independent implementation of Java Standard Edition 5 under the Apache ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Modern-day applications are quickly evolving from monolithic giants to collections of microservices running in containers or lightweight virtual machines. This allows for a more nimble development of ...

Java 22 arrives with previews of scoped values, structured concurrency, stream gatherers, and the ability to execute multi-file programs. Java Development Kit 22, the next version of Java Standard ...