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.

Allowing developers to handle an exception from the selector in switch with a case in the switch block would make switch more usable for pattern matching, the proposal says.

Google's uses Java in its Android smartphone operating system Google has won a major US court battle with software firm Oracle after a jury ruled it did not unfairly appropriate parts of the Java ...