Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

VS Code comes bundled with other Java support wrapped in the Extension Pack for Java, which is still in preview with an estimated 9.8 million installs. "Over the past few years, Microsoft have been ...

The idea behind the language is WORA, which stands for Write Once, Run Anywhere. It simply means that compiled Java code should run on any supporting platform without the need for recompilation.