It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

Oracle has updated their roadmap for Free support of Java 8. This removes the previously reported "cliff edge" for Java 8 support but still only leaves a four-month cut over period and no long ...

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 ...

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

And Java is enabling the benefits of object-oriented programming that we’ve all been hearing about for years — cost savings through code re-use and applications that can be broken into chunks ...

Java 8 is into the wild and it brings along a number of new and useful features like lambda expressions and the streams API.

To celebrate Java’s 25th anniversary this year, JetBrains has compiled data from multiple sources to look at what the current state of the language is.

The free and open source Zulu 8.0 is compatible and compliant with the recently launched Java SE 8.

In this article, Ben Evans explores some features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8.

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...