On forums dedicated to answering questions for people who are new to Java programming (such as the Sun forum called New to Java), a common frustration vented by many of the “regulars” is when people ...

The April 2021 update to Java on Visual Studio Code mainly improves debugging and testing. In VS Code, Java tooling is provided via various extensions that are bundled in the Java Extension Pack ...

Learn how to write and validate unit tests with JUnit 5. This article shows you how to configure a Maven project for JUnit, write basic and parameterized unit tests, and use JUnit 5’s built-in ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New ...

Microsoft has released another update of its Java on Visual Studio Code, the package of extensions used by Redmond's lightweight source code editor to support Java coding, testing and debugging. The ...