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.

However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor has gained steam as a lightweight alternative for Java development. Already prevalent in the JavaScript and TypeScript communities, VS ...

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 ...

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 ...