Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...

Java’s main function is void, which means it does not return any value when it completes. main – When the JVM starts a standalone application, the main method is the function that gets invoked. String ...

JNI allows the use of function libraries made in languages such as C, C++, VB from Java applications. The advantage of JNI is that you don't need to write the calling function definition in Java ...

Writing pure functions in Java. Listing 1 presents the source code to an example application, DaysInMonth, that is written using an an anonymous inner class and a functional interface.This ...

Developers interested in using Java to build serverless apps using Microsoft Azure Functions will now have that option, Microsoft plans to announce Wednesday at JavaOne. One of the most requested ...

JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 191 defines the Java Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which are interfaces that can bind native functions to Java methods and can manage blocks of native memory.

Each event is processed individually so thousands of functions can run in parallel and performance remains consistently high regardless of the frequency of events." Developers can use Java 8, ...

Sun Microsystems, which created the Java language, believes there will be 20 million Java cell phones in use by the end of this year. Carriers, including Sprint PCS and Cingular in the United ...