Click here for more info on the rapid release cadence of the JDK When Java was first released, the world was a very different place. This was 1995, and the Internet and World Wide Web were still very much in their infancy. When James Gosling and John Gage demonstrated the WebRunner browser (as it was
It feels like it was only a few weeks since JDK 9 was launched, and that’s because it was. Things move on, however, and with the new release cadence for OpenJDK, JDK 10 has already reached the release candidate milestone. I’ve seen a variety of blog posts on the subject of what’s new in
We talk to lots of people every week, ranging from analysts and press to prospects and customers, and there’s one thing that almost everyone has in common — last Fall they missed some huge changes in the way Java will be built, released, and supported. We can’t say it is really their fault. Java has been
It’s 2018, and significant changes are happening for Java. As announced last year we’re moving to a time-based release of the JDK, rather than feature-based. This is excellent news, as it means features can be integrated when ready and developers will get access to new features much faster than they ever have before. JDK
Or, at least, more widely available. Azul’s business is Java. Not using it, but providing people with alternatives for the JVM and JDK binaries. We think this is a good thing because it gives people a choice of which distribution of Java they use. The obvious question that people ask is, “Well, Java is write
Happy New Year! Last year, I wrote a blog with my predictions for what would happen in the world of Java in 2017. Now that 2017 has ended and we’re starting 2018, I thought it would be interesting to look back at what I had predicted and make some new predictions for this year. I’ll
November has been a busy month, primarily because it seems that this is the most popular month to organise a European Java conference. I guess this makes sense as it’s just after JavaOne, so various new things to discuss and it’s not holiday season (Europe is untroubled by any form of Thanksgiving). It’s also late
Recently, I ran a webinar on “Migrating Applications to JDK 9” . To develop this, I used some of the material I had researched for an earlier blog post along with new material gleaned from different sources. Rather than looking at the details of moving an application from the classpath to a set of modules, I
But you can confuse them… I don’t envy Mark Reinhold’s job. As Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, he has literally millions of Java developers to keep happy. That’s no simple task. Just before JavaOne, there were a number of announcements made about the Java platform including a move to a strict
Today is the day! After a [rather long] wait, JDK 9 is finally here! JDK 9 has plenty of new features (you can find more details in my presentation, “55 New Features in JDK 9”) but, from a developers perspective doesn’t quite have the excitement we had with JDK 8 and the introduction of Lambda
You wait three and a half years for a JDK release and then three come along in the space of a year (thus the reference to buses in the title of this post). It’s now been officially proposed by Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle that the Core Java Platform
Azul often gets asked how to apply newer time zone definitions to already installed JDKs. Up until now, the answers have been: (1) update your JDK to the latest revision, which will have newer timezone details inside, or (2) download and use tzupdater. Since the answer for (2) is free but not always attractive, Azul
