It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

JetBrains this spring will offer full support for Java 7 in an upgrade to the company’s IntelliJ Idea IDE, according to the JetBrains IntelliJ Idea blog.

The free and open source Zulu 8.0 is compatible and compliant with the recently launched Java SE 8.

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

In this article, Ben Evans explores some features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8.