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.

This is the final article in the Essential Java language features tour, which started with an introduction to assertions in JDK 1.4 and has proceeded through every major platform release since then.

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.

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

An executive from Oracle, the company that oversees the Java language, and other industry veterans spelled out what the changes mean to developers at the QCon 2019 London conference.

I hate Java. As a programmer, I hate Java, the language, for what it has done to the field of programming. As a journalist, I hate the relentless hyping of Java by its supporters, as well as their ...

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 ...

With deliveries of Blu-ray players to U.S. consumers due shortly, HD Technology Update approached Bill Sheppard, Senior Industry Marketing Manager of Emerging Markets, to discuss the role of Java in ...

Java is a compiled language. That's good and well if you are a DevOps engineer building Java applications for a Jenkins pipeline. But if you just want to learn programming, it's not ideal to compile ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.