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This session provides an introduction to Java programming for developers who are new to the language and ecosystem. Java is one of the world’s most popular programming languages and remains in very high demand among professionals.

With JEP 368, Java expert Jim Laskey proposes a second text blocks preview, this time with two more escape sequences to try and perfect text blocks at last.

The Z Garbage Collector or ZGC has, until now, not been compatible with macOS, but JEP 364 wants to change that. Let’s take a look at the future of Java.

A deep dive into local variable type inference first made available in Java 10, and Azure Spring Cloud is now in public beta.

Red Hat has achieved a 1.0 milestone in its efforts to make an instance of Java available for Kubernetes via the open source Quarkus project.

Last week we took a deep dive into a new State of the Octoverse report, looked at Java ValueTypes, caught up with the latest Java 14 news & much more.

Teaching the Basics of Java in Under an Hour! – Free Course

Java 12 introduces switch expressions. Together with a new lambda-style arrow syntax, this makes switch more expressive and less error-prone.

The Java EE Guardians, the all-volunteer organization formed in 2016 to secure the continuing evolution of enterprise Java, is considering a name change — and not just because ‘Java EE’ has become ‘Jakarta EE.’ With the platform now securely evolving under the stewardship of the Eclipse Foundation, the members don’t feel they have much to guard these days. In fact, they feel more like … ambassadors.

I am constantly amazed at how unfamiliar otherwise competent developers can be with numeric types. In a series of two blog posts I will explain what you need to know to understand the JVM’s numeric types. This first installment covers the integer types.

Java 14, the third version since the last LTS release, is in development. Java 12 and Java 13 each came with a manageable number of new features; a system that, for Java 14, will probably not change. This is of course due to the new release cadence. Nevertheless, there are now 10 JEPs that are likely to be implemented for JDK 14 and the planning phase is not yet complete. What’s new is that a seventh JEP has now been proposed to target JDK 14: JEP 366.

Learn how to generate random dates in Java

A blog about Java, Programming, Algorithms, Data Structure, SQL, Linux, Database, Interview questions, and my personal experience.

The Java SortedSet interface is a subtype of the Java Set interface. Implementations of the Java SortedSet interface keeps the elements sorted internally, so they can be iterated in that order.

A blog about Java, Spring, Hibernate, Programming, Algorithms, Data Structure, SQL, Linux, Database, JavaScript, and my personal experience.