Java has gracefully evolved over the past decade or so. However, the biggest update to Java ecosystem is the Java 8 update. The changes ensure that Java stays at the top priority for developers to ...

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 ...

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The drive towards newer Java versions and updated enterprise specifications isn’t just about keeping up with the latest tech; ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

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 ...