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 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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

New features in Java Java 17 adoption is increasing as organizations move away from Java 8 and Java 11 to migrate onto the latest LTS release. Plenty has changed since Java 8 and Java 11 were first ...

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