Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve

Developers both love and hate Java, while others, apparently, regret learning ot code in Java. Evolving the OpenJDK so that everyone is happy is hard. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 7 years ago

Don't Fear the Java

Updates to Java have changed and you now have more choice than ever for where to get your JDK. This doesn't mean there will be divergent versions, though. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 7 years ago

Winter Is Coming for Java Updates

The next scheduled update to Java is released next week. However, there will no free public update for either JDK 8 or JDK 11 from Oracle. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 7 years ago

Predictions for Java in 2019

What will the year of 2019 hold for Java? Here are my predictions for each area of the Java platform as well as the JCP and JDK distributions. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 7 years ago

Zulu Gets Graphical with OpenJFX – Azul Systems Blog

JavaFX provides a rich set of libraries to create graphical applications in Java. ZuluFX provides JavaFX functionality to the Zulu JDK. It's also free. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 7 years ago

90 New Features (and APIs) in JDK 11

JDK 11 is here, only six months after JDK 10 and a year after JDK 9. Find out about all the new features in this release. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 7 years ago

What Comes After JDK 8?

With the faster release cadence of the JDK, choosing which version to use can be confusing. Find out what other people are planning to do. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 8 years ago

Java's Magic Sauce

Right from the beginning, Java has contained internal APIs, not intended for general development use. Since JDK 1.4, sun.misc.Unsafe is probably the most notorious. What would Java be like, and how successful would it have been without this? | Continue reading


@azul.com | 8 years ago

Eliminating Java Update Confusion

Many Java developers and users are still not clear on how the JDK will be delivered and updated starting with JDK 11 later this year. Here we provide a concise summary of the changes with links to sources. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 8 years ago

How Do We Define Java?

The term Java is massively overloaded and covers many things in the development platform. From JDK 11 this will be a bit simpler. | Continue reading


@azul.com | 8 years ago