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 ...

Using the ‘annotation processor,’ developers can take advantage of the latest Java language features and still compile to Java 8 bytecode Do you want to stay on Java 8 while taking advantage of the ...

Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) version, is now at release candidate (RC) stage with general availability scheduled for September 16.… The RC release is the first of two, with the second set for ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Java SE 13 is generally available along with new programs to attract more developers to the Oracle cloud and Linux platforms. Java SE 13 (JDK 13), the latest version of the Java ...

End your tour of Java’s essential language features with Jeff’s introduction to Java 8’s method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates that every ...