With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

As far as the simplified Code Actions -- used for refactorings and Quick Fixes of detected issues -- they can now be more quickly launched with the Quick Fix lightbulb icon, whereas before a coder had ...

After a Java static code analysis runs, PMD provides a report of the offending lines of code. PMD can identify common problems such as the hard coding of passwords and IP addresses, the use of a ...

How to write clean code in Java doesn't follow one specific set of guidelines. Programmers should adopt one Java style guide, minimize class size, provide logical names and reuse existing code to make ...

Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server. "With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made ...

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

Red Hat has released a new extension for its popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor--Language Support for Java by Red Hat--now available on the VS Code Marketplace.

A critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver AS Java is being widely exploited, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution ...