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The latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. The 1.8 release was timed to coincide with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode ...

The 2.12 release of Scala, the type-safe programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), comes with a completely overhauled compiler, which allows the language to fully leverage the VM ...

Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts bytecode into machine language. It may also refer to compiling the ...

Using generics results in more robust code and avoids ClassCastExceptions in your Java programs. This in-depth tutorial introduces you to generics and their types and methods. Generics are used in ...

With the impending arrival of Java SE (Standard Edition) 9 this summer, developers will get more than modularity, which has been the most highly touted feature of the upgrade. They’ll also get an ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Performance is an issue constantly raised about the Java platform. Java's portability is also a major disadvantage, as bytecode must always undergo some form of conversion to run on the native ...