The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new "project view," better known as the Java Projects Explorer. The ...

AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and IntelliJ IDEA are changing how Java developers code, debug, and modernize applications. From automating boilerplate to guiding framework upgrades, these tools ...

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. "Java 19 brings the first preview of virtual threads to the Java ...

AI copilots like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted tools are reshaping how developers modernize, migrate, and maintain Java projects. By combining structured workflows, context-rich ...

The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

If you’ve used the Java Native Interface (JNI) to make a platform-specific native library accessible to your Java programs, you know how tedious it can be. Jeff Friesen continues his series on ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...