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Marking a watershed moment for Java programmers, Oracle today is releasing JDK (Java Development Kit) 8, accommodating lambda expressions and representing a shift in how developers approach the ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

Yes, Java has had plenty of bad press in recent years because of security issues. Yes, the upcoming release of Java, version 8, has had its initial feature set pared and has been delayed. But Java ...

While Oracle did previously announce that future updates for Java 8 would only be for paid license holders, Rice felt that the account representative was using this as a scare tactic in order to ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Michael is a born Texan and a former graphic designer. He's been covering technology in general and Android in particular since 2011. His interests include folk music, football, science fiction, and ...

With new JDK releases scheduled to arrive every six months, organizations will quickly find themselves two or three versions behind the latest build. For example, any organization that upgraded to ...

BellSoft, one of the largest external contributors to OpenJDK announced on Tuesday a significant upgrade to its Liberica JDK Performance Edition, incorporating Java Virtual Machine technology from JDK ...

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