Minor #2 1.9.0_40-b45 9u40 9.2.4+45 9.2.4 The JEP was created on October 20, 2014 and is under Candidate status for release with JDK 9.

JDK 9 is now feature complete, Oracle Corp. announced last week, and the final date for the general availability of Java 9 Standard Edition is set for July 27. Oracle reached its Feature Extension ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

NetBeans 9.0 also adds a new project, Java Modular Project, for developing several JDK 9 modules in one Ant-based project.

Based on Java Standard Edition 8, JDK 8 is set to support Project Lambda, to make it easier to write code to run on multicore processors. A preview build already has been available.

Tony Printezis talks about the major changes and improvements coming in JDK 9 that will affect (but also help) anyone who's interested in Java performance monitoring, profiling, and tuning.

Java 9 -- better known as Java SE 9 Platform Specification, or Java SE 9 (JDK 9) -- comes nearly three years after the release of Java 8. In addition to Java 9, Oracle announced the availability of ...