We continue to make great progress on Java EE 8. Specifications are nearly complete, and we expect to deliver the reference implementation this summer. As we approach the delivery of Java EE 8 and the JavaOne 2017 conference, we believe there is an opport... (more…)

Jazelle DBX (direct bytecode execution)[1] is an extension that allows some ARM processors to execute Java bytecode in hardware as a third execution state alongside the existing ARM and Thumb modes.[2] Jazelle functionality was specified in the ARMv5TEJ a... (more…)

TLDR; Java has a few different ways of comparing variables and objects with one another. ==, equals(), compareTo() and compare(). Java provides various operators such as == and != which check for equality and inequality respectively. They are used in a pr... (more…)

The Amazon Corretto team introduces the open source Heapothesys benchmark, a synthetic workload that simulates fundamental application characteristics that affect garbage collector (GC) latency. The benchmark creates and tests GC load scenarios defined by... (more…)

While self-reported data suggests that running the latest and greatest JVM in production is the way forward, the recent report by New Relic (which monitors real JVMs in production) suggests that the Java landscape is dominated by Java 8, and to a lesser e... (more…)