This is the latest edition (July 2020) of my Java AI book. I am the author of 20+ books on programming and artificial intelligence - this is my most widely read and most popular book. (more…)

I am sitting in my study, it’s dark and completely silent, I am in the creative flow, typing away the last lines of code for my new… (more…)

Blog on Java, Performance, Concurrency, NIO, Unsafe, Low latency, Programming, Software, Philosophy... (more…)

Oracle continues to make progress Java EE 8, the enterprise edition for the Java platform, and moving forward it would like to advance Java EE within a more open and collaborative community. Specifications are nearly complete and the Java team expects to ... (more…)

Allow value classes to opt in to implicit instance creation in certain circumstances in exchange for optimized field and array storage. This is a preview language and VM feature. (more…)