From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. Start building your toolbox of essential Java language features ...

Even with functional programming improvements in Java 8, Java remains an imperative, object-oriented programming language. It’s missing range types and other features that would make it more ...

Java has continued to evolve, offering new features and refining old ones. Java 11 first launched in September 2018 and received no fewer than 25 different updates over the following six years.

Oracle has released new versions of Java every six months as of Java 10, which it released in March 2018. The aim is to bring customers more innovation faster while also providing predictability ...

Enhance the Java programming language with sealed classes and interfaces. Sealed classes and interfaces restrict which other classes or interfaces may extend or implement them. Java SE 16 is the core ...

In response to complaints about Java's verbosity, the latest version, Java 8, added features taken from functional programming idioms that make Java code shorter and more expressive. The Java 9 ...

“There were even fears that Java 10 or 11 might not have any features at all.” But four rapid releases later (10, 11, 12, and now 13), ... the first line of every program.

Java has been a programming stalwart since its inception in 1995, and remains one of the most popular languages for web applications and big data processing, however, Kotlin, a relatively new kid ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

Looking ahead, Oracle reckons that Java “continues to be the #1 programming language for today’s technology trends” and it seems to be well poised to receive support from a broad range of ...