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.

If you want to predict the future of Java, it helps to know where we were with Java in 2018. This is a topic we explored at TheServerSide all year to satisfy readers' curiosity about how Java fits ...

Today, we see that in containerisation and cloud. Java is poised to begin its third act – supporting cloud-native, data-intensive applications in analytics and Artificial Intelligence and IoT on 5G.