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August is over and done; summer is almost over. Don’t worry if you were on holiday, we’ve got all the top Java stories that you might have missed last month.

Last week, our eight Java influencers described their favorite Java 11 feature(s) and weighed in on everything that has been axed [or deprecated]. Now it’s time to discuss the importance of Java 11 [and if it can convince developers to “drop” Java 8]  and the fact that the ‘public updates’ tap for Java 8 business users will be turned off in January 2019.

The Cloud Foundry Foundation has released their top enterprise language report. The results are shocking to no one: Java takes first place yet again. But what about newer languages? Why are businesses sticking with the old?

Javalin, a very lightweight web framework for Kotlin and Java, has just reached a very important milestone: 2.0.0 stable is out. This release brings a lot of improvements and major changes. Let’s have a look!

In the first part of this interview series, we invited seven Java influencers to talk about the new six-month cadence and the dangers of release fatigue. Now it’s time to talk about their favorite Java 11 feature(s) and weigh in on everything that has been axed [or deprecated].

Last month, the JDK team made a call for discussion in order to investigate a number of options for JDK source code management. But is it time to retire Mercurial in favor of Git? Let’s have a closer look at what the experts had to say on that and what the community’s reaction has been so far.

Last month, the JDK team made a call for discussion in order to investigate a number of options for JDK source code management. But is it time to retire Mercurial in favor of Git? We talked to Thomas Stüfe, senior developer at SAP about all this and more.

Java 10 was the first release in Oracle’s new six-month cycle and now we’re just one month away from Java 11 so it’s not far-fetched to say that Java’s new chapter is exciting. In this 5-part interview series with this year’s Java influencers, we shed some light on the new six-month cadence, the dangers of release fatigue, what’s next for this old favorite and more.

Annotations are everywhere in web or enterprise development. But how should they actually be defined? Adrian D. Finlay goes over the basics of Java annotations, their restrictions, retention policies, and more in this informative introduction to this coding mainstay.

Last month, the JDK team made a call for discussion in order to investigate a number of options for JDK source code management. But is it time to retire Mercurial in favor of Git? We talked to OpenJDK Author Patrick Reinhart about all this and more.

Java 10 was “the fastest in Java’s 23-year history” and now we’re just one month away from Java 11 so it’s not far-fetched to say that Java’s new chapter is exciting. This issue depicts Java’s new journey but it’s not (just) an ode to this 23-year-old programing language; if you’re a DevOps aficionado or expert, you’ll surely enjoy the second part.

Last month, the JDK team made a call for discussion in order to investigate a number of options for JDK source code management. But is it time to retire Mercurial in favor of Git? We talked to Java Champion Stephen Colebourne about all this and more.

The saying “one man’s misfortune is another man’s fortune” has never been more true. It’s no news that Java has been on a slippery slope but we might know who the replacement is if the programming language rankings are right. Spoiler alert: it’s Python!

Knock, knock! Who’s there? It’s another list, only this time it’s *all* about the hottest Java news we had so far in 2018! Why you ask? First of all, because we are definitely having fun making these lists! And second, we have so many things that went down during the first half of 2018, so how can we keep up without a quick recap? What’s more, we have a very special JAX London goodie bag for you at the end of this article!