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 ...

At JavaOne, Microsoft announced that Azure Functions, which allows users to run small pieces of code in the cloud, support Java. This update adds to the number of supported languages for Azure Functio ...

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"With this release, Functions is now ready to support Java workloads in production, backed by our 99.95 percent SLA," said Asavari Tayal, program manager II, Azure Functions, in a blog post. "You can ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java.

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.

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"With this release, Functions is now ready to support Java workloads in production, backed by our 99.95 percent SLA," said Asavari Tayal, program manager II, Azure Functions, in a blog post. "You can ...