Project Coin provides numerous “small language enhancements” as a subset of the new JDK 7 features. I recently blogged on Project Coin‘s switching on Strings and in this post I write about the new ...

Java, the 14-year-old language and application platform founded by Sun Microsystems, is set to take on a more modular approach with the planned Java SE Development Kit 7 upgrade to the platform, Sun ...

On Tuesday Oracle announced the latest update of version 7 of the Java Development Kit. Update 40 (JDK 7u40) adds a number of new features, including advanced monitoring and diagnostic capabilities, a ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Oracle this week unveiled the first and probably only release candidate of the Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7), the next major release of the Java SE platform, and the first new version of Java to make ...

Version 7.0 of NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) is now available. This free, open-source tool supports development of desktop, enterprise, mobile, and Web applications with Java, PHP, ...