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Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

With developers ready to move from building Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to JDK 9, Oracle’s chief Java executive proposes to restrict merges between the two code lines. In an email posted to an ...

Google’s Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with a few major changes and a bunch of small ones – the most notable being built-in support for Kotlin and ...

The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because the old ...