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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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