Despite having just celebrated its 30 year anniversary, Java is still going strong. Scroll through the list of other programming languages created in the 90s and you won’t find many names you’d still recognize today, yet Java is still prevalent across the industry. TIOBE’s Programming Community index for June 2025 ranks Java as the fourth … continue reading
Azul has announced an update to its Vulnerability Detection solution that promises to reduce false positives in Java vulnerability detection by up to 99% by only flagging vulnerabilities in code paths that are actually used. According to Azul, typical scanners scan JAR files for components by name, rather than what the JVM actually loads. Erik … continue reading
CloudBees has announced it has brought its multiple standalone products together under a single platform called CloudBees Unify. According to the company, CloudBees unifies acts like a layer on top of existing toolchains, and it uses an open and modular architecture to connect to other tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Key features include a … continue reading
A new report from the Java vendor Azul claims that 88% of companies are considering moving off of Oracle Java to another alternative as a result of rising costs and restrictive policies from Oracle, among other issues. Oracle changed its licensing model for Java two years ago to base the cost on the number of … continue reading
Azul has announced a new feature that catalogs the source code used by production Java applications so that unused code can be removed. Code Inventory collects detailed information about code information within the JVM to provide a report on what is used across the Java workloads running in production. The report also includes the date … continue reading
The company announced ReadyNow Orchestrator (RNO), which is a new feature that reduces Java warmup time and uses demand to determine cloud compute capacity. “When a JVM wakes up, we believe it spends too much time profiling application usage to get the best optimizations – so we solved that when we first introduced ReadyNow. Now, … continue reading
Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past. “The new Java SE Universal Subscription was developed based on feedback from our customers with Java workloads running in increasingly diverse environments. … continue reading
Azul, provider of an open source measurement tool for Java applications, today announced Azul Intelligence Cloud. This announcement brings users a new line of products that apply cloud resources to analyze and optimize Java fleets and provide actionable intelligence. The first offering from the Intelligence Cloud is Cloud Native Compiler, bringing elasticity to Java Just … continue reading
Microsoft announced the first preview release of Visual Studio 2022, which the company aims to use to test and tune the scalability of the new 64-bit platform. The Visual Studio 2022 previews can be installed side-by-side with earlier versions of Visual Studio, which are available in all three editions (Community, Pro, and Enterprise), and are … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a preview of its build of OpenJDK, which is the open-source distribution for Java. Microsoft’s OpenJDK build includes binaries for Java 11, and the company has also released an early access binary for Java 16 for Windows on ARM. “Java is one of the most important programming languages used today — developers … continue reading
Zing allows Java applications to scale as a single, large virtual machine instead of across smaller machines … continue reading
