Forgive me for circling repeatedly around this point, but the possibility that the Java Virtual Machine might long outlive the Java language itself is becoming increasingly intriguing to me. More ...

Oracle's plan to merge the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM is still evolving, but a single JVM based on both technologies is expected in 18 months to two years, an Oracle ...

There are technologists who follow industry shifts and there are those who have lived through their defining moments. Gil Tene belongs to the latter group. As Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer ...

Microsoft has announced the private preview of jaz, a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) launcher tailored for cloud deployments on Azure. The tool aims to address long-standing challenges developers face ...

Virtual threads are an important advancement in Java concurrent programming, but they do not offer a clear advantage over Open Liberty’s existing autonomic thread pool for running typical cloud-native ...

Java is not the language it used to be, and that is mostly a good thing. Here are eleven ways Java is evolving to meet the challenges of the future. Is Java ancient yet? The kind of programming ...