The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

Released as part of JDK 1.1 in 1997, JDBC was one of the earliest libraries developed for the Java language. JDBC was initially conceived as a client-side API , enabling a Java client to interact ...

Few other programming languages enjoy the same level of tooling support that Java does, which helps cement itself as the best programming language. 4. First-order Android Support. Android is the world ...

Java 18 added nine new language enhancements, and Java 19 added seven. In Java 18 , a new Simple Web Server was added that developers can use for prototyping and testing purposes.

Java's roots trace back to 1991, when Sun engineers James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton set out to create a language for interactive television and embedded devices. This was called ...

The work on the new Java EE security API is ongoing, and Kosowski said the Oracle team is open to external input. Check out the Java EE Security Spec page to find out more. There is also a GitHub play ...

Oracle has announced general availability of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, its reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec. Rolling out in line with Oracle's six-monthly ...

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

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