The benefits of using Java alternatives such as Azul might include cost optimisation, higher performance and vulnerability management. Java is one of the world’s most popular programming languages.

Today, my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott published a scathing investigative report of how Oracle partners with shovelware companies in order to monetize the distribution of the Java JRE. Given that I work ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

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 ...

Java can handle large workloads, and even if it hits limitations, peripheral JVM languages such as Scala and Kotlin can pick up the slack. But in the world of data science, Java isn't always the go-to ...

To assist technical leaders in making mid- to long-term technology investment decisions. To help individual developers in choosing where to invest their valuable time and resources for learning and ...

The Java platforms (J2SE and J2EE) are filled with rich and useful features, making Java an extremely useful resource for more than mere programming. To use Java, a good scripting tool is needed.

The Sun creation was attracting millions of programmers eager to use Java to build everything from smart-phone software to high-volume Web sites. “Stewardship of Java is such a profitable business, I ...

The next version of standard Java seems poised to include a foreign function and memory API, a vector API, pattern matching for switch expressions, universal generics, and more. With Java 18 due as a ...