The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

The Essential Java language features tour has explored the most popular and commonly used features introduced with every version of Java since JDK 1.4. With this article we come to the end of the ...

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

And what Java has done is said, ‘hmm, okay, let’s take some of those ideas and bring those into the language,’” said Ritter.

June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

AdoptOpenJDK.net has JDKs for Java 8, 9, 10, and 11, and also offers a choice between the HotSpot and OpenJ9 JVMs (Java Virtual Machines).

I hate Java. As a programmer, I hate Java, the language, for what it has done to the field of programming. As a journalist, I hate the relentless hyping of Java by its supporters, as well as their ...

Java meanwhile is used to develop a number of desktop and mobile applications. Java used to be the primary language used for Android development, until Google announced that Kotlin would be its ...

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Move up and move down, make a selection. With the Blu-ray Disc Java platform, the interface can be changed to reflect the feel of the movie. “The Matrix” could have a futuristic type interface ...