Benchmarking Renaissance on OpenJDK and Azul Platform Prime
The Renaissance Suite is an increasingly popular Java benchmark and one of the many benchmarks that Azul uses internally to measure performance of Azul Platform Prime from release to release and...
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67 New Features in JDK 16
How time flies! Even in these extraordinary times, it seems hard to believe another six months have passed, and we now have a new release of the JDK. As usual, I will summarise all the new...
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Staring Into My Java Snow Globe 2021
Happy New Year, everyone! For the last few years, I’ve written a blog post at the start of each year with my predictions for what will happen in the following twelve months focused on Java. Now...
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Java First, Second and Now Third
Measuring the popularity of programming languages is never going to be simple. We often see the results of surveys that have been conducted by various companies or organisations that seem...
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A Quarter of a Century of Java
February 12th, 1996. This is a significant date for me personally since it was the day I started work at Sun Microsystems as a Solaris Systems Engineer...
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What’s New In JDK 14 Latest Release? 80 New Features & APIs
Well, another six months have passed, and we have another release of Java, this one pretty packed with exciting new features. It is, therefore, time for another blog post trying...
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JDK Certifications: What ISVs Need to Navigate the Java Runtime Landscape
In this webinar, George Gould, Azul VP of Partner Alliances, presents an overview of the OpenJDK project, provides a 3-step JDK certification methodology, establishes a framework for evaluating JDKs,
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No Longer the Applet of the Developer’s Eye
I recently noticed that Applets are now, to use a Monty Python analogy, the Norwegian Blue of client-side development. If you go all the way back to when Java was...
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