It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

In this installment of Open source Java projects, Steven Haines introduces Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model. Get started with a simple program that ...

Java is a programming language that allows developers ... native applications written for a specific OS. However, thanks to Project Sumatra that performance gap may soon become less of an issue.

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming. Java would be extended to foreign programming ...

“The problem space is changing and developers have higher demands on their programming languages than ever.” Java development is organized into six projects targeting different aspects of ...

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 ...

Many software projects emerge because—somewhere ... that it uses half as much electricity as a similar program written in Java, a language commonly used at AWS. “So I could create a data ...

Project Babylon aims to extend Java to better support external programming models such as SQL, machine learning and GPU integration. In 2025, the team is focusing on developing a Java equivalent ...