Amazon Web Services has added another computer science heavyweight to its employee roster. James Gosling, often referred to as the “Father of Java,” announced on Facebook Monday that he would be joining the cloud provider as a distinguished engineer. ... (more…)

Learn to use Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, Application Insights and Team Foundation Server to decrease rework, increase transparency into your application and increase the rate at which you can ship high quality software throughout the appli... (more…)

A new JEP proposes enhancements to lambda functionality, including better disambiguation, use of the underscore for unused parameters, and shadowing of outer variables. Although these changes would bring lambdas in Java closer to other languages', the com...

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... (more…)

In this eMag we want to showcase some of the smaller Java features that have been delivered and reached their final form in recent releases. Language evolution comes in both large and small packages (and sometimes the smaller ones are really stepping ston... (more…)