JEP 458, Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs, has been Closed/Delivered for JDK 22. This JEP proposes to enhance the Java Launcher to execute an application supplied as one or more files of Java so ...

JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23. This feature proposes to enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown rat ...

IBM subsidiary Red Hat has released a new extension for Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. Language Support for Java by Red Hat, available on the VS Code Marketplace, ...

News. Microsoft Announces Built-in Support for Lombok in VS Code for Java. By David Ramel; July 19, 2022; The latest update to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java source code ...

Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling’s ...

Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

Last year, Google open sourced the code for the robots.txt parser used in its production systems. After seeing the community build tools with it and add their own contributions to the open source ...