It's about three months until Java 9 is supposed to be released. Debian contains around 1,200 packages that build against Java 8. I have been trying to build them with Java 9. (more…)

In a previous post, we announced that Oracle was beginning to explore moving Java EE technologies to an open source foundation in order to make the process of... (more…)

Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the sep... (more…)

Google recently announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android, rescuing thousands of grateful mobile developers from the purgatory of Java 7. (more…)

A few weeks ago I got to make some of my code 1000 times faster, without changing the underlying complexity! As the title implies, this involved making Java reflection calls faster. (more…)