June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

One interpretation of this graph shows Java (blue) being overtaken by C (black) over the course of the decade. What this interpretation belies is the fact that Java and the C family (C, C++, and C#) ...

Feature It was 30 years ago when the first public release of the Java programming language introduced the world to Write Once, Run Anywhere – and showed devs something cuddlier than C and C++.… ...

While learning Java, you’ll occasionally encounter a language behavior that leaves you puzzled. For example, what does expression new int[10] instanceof Object returning true signify about arrays? In ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial today was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs. Mark Reinhold, Oracle Java ...

Java’s thirtieth birthday arrives amid the clamour surrounding generative AI, a technology already capable of drafting voluminous, enterprise-level code from a single prompt. For newcomers it can seem ...