In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java.

According to The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index, in February 2022, Java was the second most popular language in the world, and its use has grown by 1.2% compared to February 2021.

JDBC and ODBC drivers JDBC and ODBC APIs work in similar ways. The specification outlines the various methods a developer can use to interact with the database. For those methods to work, the database ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax ...

The specification also supports both offset and cursor-based pagination along with a streamlined query language for repository methods. "The renaissance of enterprise Java continues," said Mike ...