To build along with this tutorial, you will need to have Java and Maven installed. You will also need the latest Visual Studio Code distribution for your system, if you don’t already have it.

Overall, Visual Studio Code is very good as a Java IDE if you install the Extension Pack for Java. It’s merely OK as a Java editor without the extension pack, as becomes obvious when you run ...

Install the Java Project Manager extension. When the installation completes, VS Code will be fully capable to validate source code, create Maven projects, run tests and execute Java classes that have ...

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java has arrived with lots of improvements in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to support for the recently released ...

Microsoft's Java on VS Code dev team is responsible for the Extension Pack for Java on Visual Studio Code in the editor's marketplace, which sports 15.5 million installs. "Java 19 brings the first ...

Easier management of project code dependencies and improvements to extensions for popular Java frameworks and runtimes highlight the February update to Java in Visual Studio Code functionality. Java ...

The Java extensions within VSC are among the first to adopt the new Testing API from Visual Studio Code, with Microsoft making significant improvements to the Java testing experience with the ...

Finally, classpath configuration has been improved. "Managing path for source code, output, runtime, and libraries is an important project management task, almost every Java developer will perform," ...