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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. At last year’s JavaOne, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, introduced a ...

Most of the products tested (except Windows Server 2012), use Oracle’s Java in one form or another, at least for client access and also in some cases within the management interface. With numerous ...

For the last year or so, Java seems to have spawned a never-ending flow of security bugs, partly because of the software environment's invisibility to end users and partly because of the system access ...

Microsoft is continuing to push its Java tooling across its properties, with two main targets being Visual Studio Code and the Azure cloud. Despite stewarding its own popular programming languages ...

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 ...

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...