Microsoft recently announced the availability of its Reliable Web App Pattern for Java Tomcat--a potentially powerful move to attract more Java developers to its Azure cloud platform.

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...

Microsoft, which has long crowed "we use more Java than one can imagine," has been busy improving related tooling and functionality, yesterday introducing the "Reliable Web App Pattern for Java" among ...

In addition to enhanced preview features such as the Class-File API, the JDK brings innovations in pattern matching and opens up the documentation for Markdown.

Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers ...