Java has been one of the top two programming languages for the past 10 years. How has it stood the test of time? Good design and continuous innovation have a lot to do with it.

JUnit 5 is the de facto standard for developing unit tests in Java. A robust test suite not only gives you confidence in the behavior of your applications as you develop them, but also gives you ...

Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual ...

Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts bytecode into machine language. It may also refer to compiling ...

Azul has launched a cloud-native compiler, improving the time to peak performance for Java applications. By delegating JIT to an external system, applications can reach higher throughput, faster than ...

“It was a little bit crazy, because we were trying to make a compiler in Java, which is not the usual way compilers are written. But I’ve always been interested in that step between the human ...

2. The Java profiler: javap You can consider the Java command-line tool javap a complement to the javac utility. While javac compiles code, the javap utility reverses that compilation and provides ...