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Core Java
JDK 12’s Files.mismatch Method
JDK 12 introduces a new method to the Files class. The method, Files.mismatch(Path,Path), has been introduced to JDK 12 via…
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Core Java
JDK 12 Javadoc Tag for System Properties
JDK 12 Early Access Build 20 (2018/11/15) is available and can be used to try out the new Javadoc tag…
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Core Java
Java’s Future-Looking Projects: Panama, Loom, Amber, and Valhalla
The press release “Oracle Code One Java Keynote Outlines the Future of Java” describes the Java Keynote at Oracle Code…
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Core Java
IBM to Acquire Red Hat: A Java-Oriented First Look
Oracle Corporation completed the process of acquiring Sun Microsystems nearly nine years ago. That was big news then and similarly…
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Core Java
A Tale of Two Oracle JDKs
There has been concern recently that Java developers will inadvertently use the wrong Oracle-provided JDK implementation now (as of JDK…
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Core Java
JDK 11 General Availability
As scheduled, it was announced today that JDK 11 was released for General Availability. Earlier this week, Iris Clark announced…
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Core Java
Raw String Literals Support in JDK 12 Early Access Build 12
The biggest news this week in the world of Java is likely going to be the General Availability of JDK…
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Core Java
JDK Bug System Time Wasters
Several possibilities of the message’s possible contents crossed my mind when I saw the title of Jesper Wilhelmsson‘s message “Introducing…
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Core Java
Java Subtlety with Arrays of Primitives and Variable Arguments
An interesting question was posed in a comment on the DZone-syndicated version of my recent blog post “Arrays.hashCode() Vs. Objects.hash()“.…
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