Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
Developers can “write once, run anywhere” (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.
How have Java SE releases changed? Choosing a Java SE version used to be fairly straight-forward. For about 12 years, you went with Java6! In recent years, things have changed, and we now have a new Java SE release every six months… What does this mean? Firstly, this is a good thing. It means that…
This month’s theme is Java 10 to tie in with the release of the new Java version. Despite being only 6 months since Java 9, there are some really exciting new features. I am going to look at the experimental JIT compiler that is part of Project Graal. What is Project Graal? Project Graal was…
For Java 10 there has been work taking place under the hood to help improve performance. There are several changes that are taking place to improve performance under the hood of the JVM. One of these changes is JEP-312. When running an application the JVM needs to occasionally stop executing Java code in order…
Java 10 has officially been out for almost a month now, and it brought with it some improvements to the G1 garbage collector. G1 was made the default garbage collector as of Java 9 in favour of Parallel GC, as the general consensus was that low pause times are more important than higher throughput…
The biggest new feature in Java 10 is the introduction of the Local-Variable Type Interface. What is Local-Variable Type Inference? This new feature will allow you to declare and initialise local variables with var, rather than specifying a type. This feature is already a part of most other statically typed languages (It has been in…
