As a Linux Journal reader, you've probably stumbled across Google Android here and there. You've probably read an introductory article or maybe you even downloaded an ...

Proposed JEP 540 would bring lightweight JSON support to the JDK while complementing, rather than replacing, established libraries.

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...

How do you create a beautiful API? Knowing that effective API development is as much an art as it is a science, TheServerSide posed this very question to MikeAmundsen (@mamund), the Principal API ...

Fourth, the Java Security Manager, which provides support for running applets by sandboxing untrusted downloaded code, will be removed with the JDK 24 release in March. Hence, there is no reason to ...

The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...

You can't blame Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, for showing a bit of frustration with Java developers who insist on calling methods that have been deprecated for ...

APIs, or application programming interfaces, make the digital world go round. Working behind the scenes to define the parameters by which software applications communicate with each other, APIs ...

Google and Oracle’s argument before the Supreme Court last October left opponents of API copyrights extremely nervous. For the previous decade, Google had been arguing in lower courts that it didn’t ...

The central tendencies we currently see in the tech industry are related to the continuous expansion of cloud computing and the rapid adoption of AI. For Java development, these trends are also ...