Web developers know that they can integrate functionality from third-parties by copying/pasting a tiny script into their HTML pages. It’s a great engineering work: by adding a few lines you end up… (more…)

A new JEP Candidate proposes to facilitate the handling of type variance in Java. The new proposal, potentially targeting Java 10, would add a means for specifying the default variance in the definition of generic types, different to the current style of ...

I’ve already written about the JVM security manager, and why it should be used - despite it being rarely the case, if ever. However, just advocating for it won’t change the harsh reality unless some guidelines are provided to do so. This post has the...

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Azul Systems' Falcon release is the first major upgrade to a Java compiler in more than 20 years... (more…)