Learn how to use Java annotations to associate metadata with classes, methods, and other application elements in your Java programs. There are times when you need to associate metadata, or data that ...

Java has long been a powerhouse programming language thanks to its portability, robustness and extensive ecosystem. However, one major challenge for Java developers is interoperation with native code.

Austin, Texas — Setting up a competition with Sun Microsystems' real-time Java effort, IBM Corp. researchers have developed a real-time Java platform that includes a garbage collector with claimed ...

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. "Java 19 brings the first preview of virtual threads to the Java ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated ...

Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code dev team added a new welcome page that presents a tour of important features for using the popular code editor with the popular programming language. It's an ...

Mojang is ending the obfuscation of Minecraft Java Edition's code very soon, which will make it easier than ever to create ...