Here is a list of the five most useful Java command-line tools that developers need to master to become productive members of their teams. 1. The Java compiler: javac The javac utility is the most ...

Along with Java, the list of JVM languages supported by RoboVM includes Scala, Kotlin, Groovy and Clojure. This release comes with a Java-to-Objective-C bridge (called "Bro," which is Swedish for ...

Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual ...

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the company’s open source distribution of Java, has added an experimental feature to improve escape analysis compiler optimization results. With a patch and security ...

Azul has launched a cloud-native compiler, improving the time to peak performance for Java applications. By delegating JIT to an external system, applications can reach higher throughput, faster than ...

Leaning Technologies announced the second major release of its CheerpJ Java compiler for the Web this week. This release, which was two years in the making, adds WebAssembly runtime modules, which are ...

Two things that developers are often concerned about with Java deployment is the garbage collector and the start-up speed of the JIT compiler. Zing is using Azul’s C4 concurrent garbage collector.