The latest long-term support release of standard Java features always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, a uniform API for pseudo random number generators, and much ...

With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

On 12 January 2011, Richard Mayhew wrote an article on The Server Side about the MacOS and JDK 7 tandem. He stated the following: “Just in case you didn’t know: wikis.sun.com has directions for ...

There’s nothing worse than installing your favorite Java-based application — such as Minecraft, Maven, Jenkins or Apache Pig — only to run into a JAVA_HOME is ...