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…)

The challenge Task Your task is to create a function that turns a string into a Mexican Wave. You will be passed a string and you must return that string in an array where an uppercase letter is a person standing up. Rules 1.  The input string will always... (more…)

These days everything can run in a container. It may be databases, continuous integration systems, esoteric hobby projects and even Windows. In this article I’ll shine a light on various tips and tools that might be helpful when packaging Java based appl... (more…)

If you maybe-kinda-sorta have a idea of what a Future is in Java, and want a concise post with a functional “Hello world” example of code… (more…)

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…)