The 30th anniversary of Java, being celebrated this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes ...

Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java.

"With this release, Functions is now ready to support Java workloads in production, backed by our 99.95 percent SLA," said Asavari Tayal, program manager II, Azure Functions, in a blog post. "You can ...

Aggressive proposals have been put forward for going from a JSR submission to a final release of a configuration API in late 2017, although that timetable seems both optimistic and aggressive. But it ...