As part of Oracle's ongoing project to merge the HotSpot and JRockit codebases, Oracle has announced that they will remove PermGen from the Java 8 version of the HotSpot JVM. The effects of the remova ...

With the recent announcement of JEP 188: Java Memory Model Update, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the JMM.

Jakarta EE 8 also includes the same APIs and Javadoc using the same programming model Java developers have always used. The Jakarta EE 8 TCKs are based on and fully compatible with Java EE 8 TCKs.

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 ...

Open source Java proponents want to modernize the Java memory model, which has not been formally updated in more than nine years, and focus on concurrency. A JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal), number ...

Java Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy “People often think Java means heavyweight,” Rocher says, but that reputation has more to do with the APIs and tools that the JVM provides to build frameworks.

Add custom triggers to start Java Flight Recorder when certain memory consumption thresholds are met. Add telemetry to your Java applications by coding custom Flight Recorder events and starting them ...