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Programmers typically target a specific, long-term support release when they develop applications. That means for the past several years, most Java developers were limited to the Java 8 or Java 11 ...

Java SE 13 (Sept 2019) introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second ...

The latest Java Development Kit (JDK) delivers new features, including two new highly anticipated preview features—Pattern Matching for instance of (JEP 305) and Records (JEP 359), as well as a second ...

At last year’s Oracle Code One conference, Java’s rapid-release cadence—a new version every six months—was still making news. And it wasn’t even new anymore. The change in release frequency from years ...

With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

Oracle has announced general availability of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, its reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec. Rolling out in line with Oracle's six-monthly release ...

End your tour of Java’s essential language features with Jeff’s introduction to Java 8’s method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates that every ...

With 10 million Java developers across the globe and 60 billion active Java virtual machines, of which 38 billion are on the cloud, Java is arguably one of the world’s most popular programming ...

CORBA, Java EE, and JavaFX support will be removed, while just a handful of new features are being added—so far Now that Oracle has released Java Development Kit 10, the next version, JDK 11, is just ...