A majority of Java developers are using Java 8 or lower. This is based on a newly released report that revealed 79 percent of developers are using Java 8, 9 percent are using Java 7 and 3 percent are using Java 6 or below. The JVM Ecosystem Survey Report was designed to look at the … continue reading
Oracle to limit support for Java 9 Following their previously announced plans for a six-month release cycle for the Java Development Kit, Oracle has announced that support for this month’s upcoming Java 9 will be short-lived to make way for the first release in the new cycle in March 2018. Despite the limited support, Java … continue reading
For years, Java has claimed type safety, but left variables out of the inheritance party. A new JDK Enhancement Proposal from Alex Buckley and Mark Reinhold aims to fix this problem in the language itself. There is, however, no timeframe for this addition to the Java language yet. JEP 286 is officially titled Local-Variable Type … continue reading
Back in 1997, Java in the browser was absolutely state of the art. But in the 18 years since then, the language’s use on the Web has dwindled in favor of server-side Java and client-side JavaScript. More importantly, however, has been the migration from plug-in-based Java Applets toward Java Web Start technologies. Oracle is currently … continue reading
Twenty years on, Java is still rolling right along. The JavaOne keynote address, given Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, had a somewhat reverent tone, as it covered both the past and future of the platform. Georges Saab, vice president of development at Oracle, gave an extensive history of the platform at the start of his … continue reading
