Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, but there’s more to Java than programming with objects. This tutorial is the first of several introducing non-object-oriented features and syntax ...

Java is a popular programming language that every programmer should learn. This article explains much of what you need to know.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language.

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

Ongoing Java enhancements Overall, the new Java release cycle approach has been successful. While some had worried that the shorter Java release cycles would result in a focus on minor language ...

What the recent changes to support and licensing of Java developer tools means for you.