Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

Java has been open source since 2011. Anyone can view the JDK’s source code and create a customized and optimized build. Popular distributions of OpenJDK and the JVM include: Azul’s high-performance ...

Find out how Avian, Codename One, J2ObjC, RoboVM, and XMLVM resolve the challenges of Java-to-iOS native client development, including garbage collection versus automatic reference counting (ARC).