Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

And of course Java on the server side drives a huge number of Web apps — but that’s a venue in which it’s been fighting with PHP and the like for a while now. In other words, network computing is good ...

Java is an excellent general-purpose programming language. So, what is wrong with just using Java for everything? Why use any other language? Java is far from slow. It is orders-of-magnitude faster ...

The IT industry modernizes the rest of the economy, and IT itself undergoes endless modification. Still, some things stay constant in this environment: Java continues to be the fundamental coding ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009 for $7.4 billion, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Java was “the single most important software asset we have ever acquired.” Two months later, appearing ...

Alexander Belokrylov is CEO of BellSoft. Accomplished expert in Java technology and IT leadership with over 10 years of experience. Modern IT is defined by rapid innovation, where stability and ...

Microsoft is continuing to push its Java tooling across its properties, with two main targets being Visual Studio Code and the Azure cloud. Despite stewarding its own popular programming languages ...

Java on Visual Studio Code gets a new tool to its extension pack, while Java on Azure upgraded the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and more in new regular updates for both properties. [Click on image for ...