Cloud-native development figures prominently in a new roadmap published by Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code dev team. As part of its duties, the Java dev team maintains extensions, including the ...

Java has long been a powerhouse programming language thanks to its portability, robustness and extensive ecosystem. However, one major challenge for Java developers is interoperation with native code.

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Enterprise software developers toiling away at the development of traditional server-side applications that get packaged in WAR files and deployed as EARs need not fret about being left behind by the ...

In the coming year, Microsoft plans to emphasize cloud native development as it adds features and expands the capabilities of its popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. "With Visual ...

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Q: If I encrypt my .class files and use a custom classloader to load and decrypt them on the fly, will this prevent decompilation? A: The problem of preventing Java byte-code decompilation is almost ...

Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. The IEEE Computer Society lists it as one of the ...

Advocates of open source Java are moving forward with an effort to let Java programmers access non-Java APIs, including many interfaces used by C programmers. Called Project Panama, the proposal is ...

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for the ...