17 years after launching into early access, Minecraft Java finally has a friends list, allowing easier multiplayer in local ...

Java has powered the world's most critical software for nearly three decades — from banking platforms and healthcare systems to enterprise applications and Android apps.

In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects, Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they cannot ...

A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers for a ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 7 arrived for Minecraft Java, and finally it's making playing with friends simpler with a Friends ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Reports of Java’s death have been greatly exaggerated — said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I’m not sure if I’m alone on this opinion, but it sure seems to me that the deprecation of the ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser ...

After many years of work, Oracle has set September 22, 2016, as the release date for Java 9, its major overhaul of the Java programming language. The company just published a release schedule for the ...