In this installment in the Open Source Java Projects series, I’ll introduce you to the SwingLabs PDF Renderer. After you’ve downloaded the project source and run a short demo, we’ll explore ...

An academic paper published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

Project Leyden has had an unusual history for an OpenJDK project. Java Language Architect Mark Reinhold proposed it in April 2020 followed by OpenJDK having approved it as a project in June 2020.

Valhalla is nothing short of a Java language overhaul, promising to correct longstanding performance issues. Here’s a first look at what’s coming, starting with the new value classes and ...

Generally, Java applications are not going to perform as well as native applications written for a specific OS. However, thanks to Project Sumatra that performance gap may soon become less of an ...

Project Babylon and Loom. Project Babylon aims to extend Java to better support external programming models such as SQL, machine learning and GPU integration. In 2025, the team is focusing on ...