Oracle has announced general availability of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, its reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec. Rolling out in line with Oracle’s six-monthly release ...

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 ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax that ...

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the availability of Java 25, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform. Java 25 ...

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduces records as a preview feature. Records aim to enhance the language's ability to model "plain data" aggregates with less ceremony. A record can be best thought of as a ...

Before 1995, software was very often built with C and C++. These are not idiot-proof programming languages. It’s possible—easy even—to really muck things up at very low levels within a computer, such ...

Java is about the least buzzworthy programming language going. It is reviled by many, and rumors have swirled that its corporate parent, Oracle, isn’t especially interested in the language’s future.

If we can figure out which new features get used, maybe we can figure out why some bomb. Organizations that publish computer programming languages, such as Java, often issue updates with new features ...