JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory ...

It is said that the only constant is change, which is abundantly clear with the licensing of Oracle Java. Since 2018, with the introduction of a new OpenJDK release cadence and specific long-term ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

Organisations using Java face a licence fee hike after Oracle’s introduction of subscription pricing for Java SE. Analyst Forrester has previously written that the move to what Oracle calls the Java ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...