JavaOne is back, baby! And by that, I mean, back in the Bay Area. It was part of a little trade show diaspora that saw Oracle OpenWorld, among others, decamping to Las Vegas, but it returned this week ...

Java developers can now run Gradle builds with JDK 11. The latest milestone release of the popular open source build automation tool (Gradle 5.0) also comes with a production-ready Kotlin DSL, ...

VMware unveiled a new Spring project last week that aims to streamline the development of applications that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) functionality. The Spring AI Project, introduced at ...

The Java security specialists at Dublin-based Waratek have released a new Log4J Vulnerability Scanner and added API security to their Java Security Platform, the company announced recently. The ...

The Spring Security team says it will release version 1.0 of its long-in-the-works Spring Authorization Server in November of this year. This version of the framework will come with a full feature set ...

The decade-long court battle between Google and Oracle over 37 Java APIs Google used without Oracle's permission in its Android mobile operating system is finally coming to an end. (Really this time….

Facial recognition technology has been taking it on the chin lately (pardon the pun). Earlier this week, the BBC reported that a UK court ruled the use of the technology by British police violated ...

The Eclipse Foundation will soon allow the hosting of its projects on social coding sites, such as GitHub and Bitbucket. The idea, says the Foundation's executive director Mike Milinkovich, is to ...

Call it "A Tale of Two Repositories." Mercurial is a free, cross-platform, distributed version-control system (SVM), and current host of the source files and change histories of most JDK projects ...

Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 12 last week, which is the third release under its still newish accelerated release cadence. JDK 10 was the first feature release of the new cycle; ...

I last sat down with Heather VanCura, chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), in 2017, roughly a year after she'd stepped up to head the Java language and platform standards organization. A lot has ...

The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) release of NetBeans 10.0 (incubating) at the end of December launched the venerable Java (now polyglot) IDE into 2019 with a slew of enhancements, including ...