In Java Futures at QCon New York, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz took us on a whirlwind tour of some recent and future features in the Java Language. In this article, he dives into Local Variable ...

At last year’s Oracle Code One conference, Java’s rapid-release cadence—a new version every six months—was still making news. And it wasn’t even new anymore. The change in release frequency from years ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java 17 adoption is increasing as organizations move away from Java 8 and Java 11 to migrate ...

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 ...

CORBA, Java EE, and JavaFX support will be removed, while just a handful of new features are being added—so far Now that Oracle has released Java Development Kit 10, the next version, JDK 11, is just ...

It’s not easy to keep up with Java’s frequent feature releases. If you missed sealed classes, text blocks, records, the new string methods, or the Optional class, let’s fix that. Java quietly ...

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 ...