The Essential Java language features tour has explored the most popular and commonly used features introduced with every version of Java since JDK 1.4.

The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

What the recent changes to support and licensing of Java developer tools means for you.

Given its tendency toward verbosity and strict syntax, it might not be the best idea to teach Java as an introductory programming language. Accessible alternatives to Java -- like Python -- exist and ...

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant The programming language once hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough is no substitute for simply training good programmers.

Oracle has announced general availability of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, its reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec. Rolling out in line with Oracle's six-monthly ...

One of the more frequently overlooked aspects of Blu-ray is its underlying use of the Sun Microsystems Java programming language to bring a high level of interactivity to the optical disc format.

Snyk’s annual JVM report shows that Kotlin is now the second most popular JVM language, overtaking both Scala and Clojure.

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...