“Why can’t I just build an .EXE?“ When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for …

This post provides an overview of Gradle’s Java 9 support, touching on runtime, cross-compilation, MRJARs, and Jigsaw modules support. We’ve fielded lots of questions since Java 9 was released last month, and decided it best to answer here.

Every now and then I get my hands on a Java project that requires to talk to a database. Depending on who of my team mates I’m talking to, database experts or Java developers, there exist different views on how to model and access data. In my early days a…

Now that Google has endorsed Kotlin for Android development, Java-based mobile developers could become dinosaurs…

So recently I published an article titled “Microservices in Java? Never.” And it seriously split the camps. Java developers who were…

We know that variables are used to store data in a Java program. We also know that each variable can store not more than one data item. So, what do we do if we need to store a large number of data items, say 50. Well, we can use 50 variables, one for each…

<div>Open Liberty is an open source implementation of Eclipse MicroProfile and Java EE from IBM. It is the foundation of the WebSphere Liberty app server.</div>

There are certain problems that just make sense to solve using Java Recursion. Demonstrating Fibonacci Series is one of them. Let’s take a look at something called Fibonacci series. Here are the first few numbers of this series:0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…

David Buck, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle One of the lesser-known features coming with JDK 9 is experimental support for ahead-of-time (AOT) co…