Developers using Java tooling with Visual Studio Code now have a better "Getting Started" experience thanks to new functionality in the September Java extensions update. Microsoft is continuing ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

The team behind Microsoft's Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ, available in the JetBrains Marketplace, announced a new "getting started" experience that promises to get devs ups and running with their first ...

Java is usually the first programming language most coders start out with since it is easy to understand and runs cross-platform. In fact Java is often referred to as ‘lingua franca’ or common ...

Write once, run everywhere: that's the slogan the Java community uses to propagate their language-of-choice. It's probably true, but only if you first manage to set up the beast on your box. This ...

After only a few years, Microsoft’s free Visual Studio Code has become one of the most popular code editors on the market. One of VS Code’s advantages is its flexibility. This flexibility does come ...