In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

The ability to write clean code is important no matter which programming language you work with. When you work in Java, it's even more pertinent. Java has long been the world's most popular ...

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...

What do developers love most about Java? For many, it’s how it manages to be so reliable (think Toyota) while still able to handle everything from parallel graph analytics to bleeding-edge finance ...

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java has arrived with lots of improvements in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to support for the recently released ...

It's a commonly asked question in a world where every software developer wants to get the most out of every clock cycle their programs consume. It was also a topic at a Java "Birds of a Feather" ...