The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

Text blocks are scheduled to become a permanent feature of the Java Language in Java SE 15. In this article Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, provides a deep-dive into the topic.

The Java programming language celebrates its silver anniversary this week, with May 23, 2020, marking 25 years from the day Sun Microsystems first introduced Java to the world. The venerable ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most ...

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 ...

Benefits of Java When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits that set it above its competitors. Almost 30 years have passed since that whitepaper was ...

While new programming languages vie for the hearts and minds of cloud-native developers, the future of Java focuses on widespread adoption.

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year.

Java, one of the world’s most popular programming languages, was a natural choice for a SQL Server language extension since it is so widely used for enterprise applications.