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

Project Coin is the name of the OpenJDK work covering small language changes for Java SE 7 . The current Java.net poll question asks which of the proposed Project Coin features is most interesting .

The Java reference implementation is Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK), which is free and open-sourced under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, with Classpath Exception.

Java 22, also known as Oracle JDK 22, packs in several enhancements across different aspects of the language and its development kit. These improvements touch upon the Java language itself, its ...

"While economic uncertainty remains, the value of investing in Java remains steadfast as the language celebrates its 30th birthday this year, Cope wrote. "In a development world where languages rise ...

Clearly, in such “mixed language” applications the ability to use Java with ASM can be useful. Note that the technique shown here can also be used to call Java code from languages other than ASM.

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...