He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java ...

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the company’s open source distribution of Java, has added an experimental feature to improve escape analysis compiler optimization results. With a patch and security ...

This project, undertaken by a team of four, involved developing a compiler in Java for a language derived from Java, known as Deca. The compiler supports the declaration of classes, fields, and ...

The Community Editions of the GraalVM JIT and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilers will move to OpenJDK in 2023. Existing releases, GraalVM Enterprise Edition features, and other GraalVM projects will not.

2. The Java profiler: javap You can consider the Java command-line tool javap a complement to the javac utility. While javac compiles code, the javap utility reverses that compilation and provides ...