Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit) 19 ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are ...

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 ...

Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...