Sun is still in the early stages of planning for Java Development Kit 7, its application development platform, and has a long list of potential features Sun is working on a long list of potential ...

The latest Java Development Kit (JDK) delivers new features, including two new highly anticipated preview features—Pattern Matching for instance of (JEP 305) and Records (JEP 359), as well as a second ...

Now available for production use, Java 19 features structured concurrency, virtual threads, pattern matching for switch expressions, a vector API, and a Linux/RISC-V port. Java Development Kit 19, a ...

Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

The latest release of Java Development Kit (JDK) 24, scheduled for release on March 18, introduces 24 new features, marking the most substantial update to the platform since 2018. Key changes include ...

With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

Programmers typically target a specific, long-term support release when they develop applications. That means for the past several years, most Java developers were limited to the Java 8 or Java 11 ...