2024 Java Developer Productivity Report finds most companies plan to add Java developers this year, though most tool budgets not rising. Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said ...

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Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

As a software developer, one of the most important decisions you make is what platform or language to focus on. The choice can depend on market conditions like the languages employers are looking for, ...

Java development frameworks can help developers get an application up and running faster, offering code reuse and eliminating the task of building boilerplate code Java development frameworks can help ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

Programmers typically target a specific, long-term support release when they develop applications. That means for the past several years, most Java developers were limited to the Java 8 or Java 11 ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...