Working between Java 7 and Java 8? Then you might be aware that the AutoCloseable type goes through a little change for the newest version of Java. Lukas Eder explains how the contract for AutoCloseable is now similar to the Iterable contract.
Java 7 has finally met its maker and will no longer be supported by Oracle via security updates. While the wind-up announcement was made long ago, there are still questions about Java 7 being killed off too soon.
JFrog CTO Yoav Landman on why the welcome new release has put innovation back into the heart of the platform, and the big looming modularity issue.
Over the past year, how Strings are represented in Java has changed. Attila Balazs outlines whats new, and shows you how you can perfect your code for it.
In this JAX London 2013 Keynote, Jamie Allen discusses best practices for using Lambdas in Java and other JVM-based languages, and shows how we can make these constructs more usable in production. He also reviews concepts associated with lambdas to make sure everyone is on the same page, such as closures, higher order functions and the relationship between methods and functions and how they relate to Lambdas.
With more than fifty percent of Java users still employing an unsupported version of the program, security expert Christopher Budd paints a grim scenario for the next year.
With more than fifty percent of Java users still employing an unsupported version of the program, security expert Christopher Budd paints a grim scenario for the next year.
From December’s JAX Magazine, Jessica Kerr explains how using Scala concepts can help us when using plain old Java.
The cloud platform has finally provided Java 7 runtime support
The on-premise version of VMwares in-beta cloud platform Micro Cloud Foundry has this week received a huge update, bringing with it several new features.
Thanks to invokedynamic, a number of dynamic JVM languages can gain prominence. So what marks out the latest arrival Magik?
The PaaS finally catches up with the pack, as Google introduce Java 7 language features to their cloud platform.
Mark Reinholds forthright explanation of Project Jigsaws delay has failed to quell dissent – but we agree that its probably the right call.
The latest release for Apache’s J2EE server brings it right up to date with full Java EE 6 compliance achieved
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