“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

AI can scaffold solutions, but it can’t evaluate requirements, enforce standards, or validate correctness. That’s still up to ...

The Java Runtime Environment provides a “container” for those elements and your code to run in. The JDK is the “compiler” that interprets the code itself and executes it.

After a Java static code analysis runs, PMD provides a report of the offending lines of code. PMD can identify common problems such as the hard coding of passwords and IP addresses, the use of a ...

As far as the simplified Code Actions -- used for refactorings and Quick Fixes of detected issues -- they can now be more quickly launched with the Quick Fix lightbulb icon, whereas before a coder had ...

Erik: There are quite a few. One of the problems that Intelligence Cloud is designed to solve is helping VPs of engineering manage the sheer volume of Java in their organizations. Many companies have ...

The code snippet was provided as an answer to a StackOverflow question posted in September 2010. The code snippet printed byte counts (123,456,789 bytes) in a human-readable format, like 123.5 MB.

Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server. "With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made ...

Judge William Alsup taught himself to code for fun in the 1980s. Now he’s the judge on Silicon Valley’s biggest cases.