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Over half of the malware Sonatype discovered in Q1 2025 was designed to exfiltrate sensitive information from infected systems, the company said.
Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for a future Java release that disallows mutation of final fields by default.
GraalVM JDK release features a new generation of ML-enabled profile inference that boosts peak performance nearly 8% on average on microservices benchmarks.
McNealy and Oracle luminaries reflect on the early days and staying power of the 30-year-old programming language and platform.
The Java enhancement proposals include both language enhancements and performance optimizations, starting with a stable values API in JDK 25.
Java 24 arrived today in a production release, packed with two dozen features. It’s a short-term support release eligible for six months of premier support.
Only about half of Java shops plan on adding developers in 2025, while use of AI for Java development has soared, per Perforce’s 2005 Developer Productivity Report.
Oracle’s annual Java conference set to showcase the past, present, and future evolution of the Java platform. Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy to keynote.
Type erasure in Java generics programming can cause a variety of problems in your code. Fortunately, there are ways to work around them.
The Java ecosystem supports a host of outstanding back-end frameworks, including many written for modern languages like Scala and Kotlin. Here's how seven top frameworks for Java and JVM languages compare.