Open Liberty now open sourced to help developers build Java apps and microservices for the cloud! (more…)

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 is available for download! In addition to many important bug fixes, this massive update brings lots of improvements to supported languages, frameworks, and built-in tools. (more…)

Java type inference won't support differentiation of mutable vs immutable variables due to lack of consensus within the community regarding how this should be implemented, recent communication shows. Also, to prevent a long debate about corner cases, a nu...

$c: a nashorn javascript function to navigate inside the structure of any Java Object. Designed for nudge4j. https://lorenzoongithub.github.io/nudge4j/ (more…)

An object is partially initialized if a constructor has begun building the object but has not finished. As long as the object is not fully initialized, it must be hidden from other classes. (more…)