Microsoft's regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code (May 2023) brings new features around performance improvement, the user experience and Spring Boot integration, among many others. One ...

JEP 441, Pattern Matching for the switch, is completed in JDK 21, following four previews in JDKs 17-20 (JEPs 406, 420, 427, 433). It finalizes the feature, addressing feedback from previews, and enha ...

Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

Much Java code is devoted to checking, double-checking, and then triple-checking objects. To simplify the code and speed things up a bit, Java has slowly been adding features that handle null ...