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 ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Maven and Eclipse have always had a rocky relationship, and a common pain point between the two ...

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 ...

Whether you want to begin coding in Java or just wish to run Java apps, you first need to learn how to install Java. In this post, we’ll see how to do that. Why do you need to install Java?

The Javadoc documentation for the Package class states: Package objects contain version information about the implementation and specification of a Java package. This versioning information is ...

Adobe Flash and Java are two downloads most of us have installed on our Windows computers, as they give us a richer internet and browsing experience. We have already seen how to manage Adobe Flash ...