Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific 'smarts' in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor.

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

Visual Studio Code 1.69 introduces the Command Center, while the VS Code Server streamlines connections to remote development machines.

Microsoft also updates Java for VS Code with performance improvements to its IntelliSense code-competition tool.

VS Code provides such language features as code completion, refactoring, linting, formatting, and code snippets, along with debugging and unit test support. It also integrates with tooling and ...