Performance Improvements for Strings JDK 25 enhances the performance of the String class, improving the speed of String::hashCode. This change optimizes operations involving string lookups, ...

Azure jaz: Automatic memory and startup optimization for Java in the cloud The new Microsoft tool for the Azure cloud aims to improve launch times for Java applications and thus reduce cloud costs.

Java is not the language it used to be, and that is mostly a good thing. Here are eleven ways Java is evolving to meet the challenges of the future.

Learn about the best practices for concurrency in Java to ensure your multi-threaded applications are efficient, synchronized, and error-free.

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Extent-local variables would provide a way to share data both within a thread and with child threads in Java, making it easier to reason about data flow.

A Java string is a sequence of characters that exists as an object of the class java.lang. Java strings are created and manipulated through the string class. Once created, a string is immutable -- its ...