Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and Nashorn--but don't miss the new Base64 API. It could be just what you need to ensure data integrity in ...

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the introduction of its own certified OpenJDK builds. With 90% of Fortune 500 companies relying on Java for their backend development, this ...

To call Nashorn JavaScript from a Java 8 program, you basically need to make a new ScriptEngineManager instance and use that ScriptEngineManager to load the Nashorn script engine by name.

Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

Java 8 introduces a concept similar to Groovy for iterating a collection, making available a 'forEach' method, which replaces the conventional manner of iterating a list.

Java 8 lambdas & new Streams API simplify common idiomatic constructs. This article investigates some common use cases in financial services and how they are easily solved with these new constructs.

Zulu 8.0 is also integrated with MS Open Tech's Azure plug-in for Eclipse Java tooling. And it comes through on the company's promise for cloud capabilities with support for the Azure Cloud, Amazon ...

These lighter-weight Java frameworks combine cloud-native flexibility with Java’s time-tested engineering, so you can write responsive code that’s easy to deploy anywhere.