With developers ready to move from building Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to JDK 9, Oracle’s chief Java executive proposes to restrict merges between the two code lines. In an email posted to an ...

The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because the old ...

Oracle appears to have shifted significant material resources to work on the Java-based browser security vulnerabilities that have grabbed headlines over the past two years -- so many resources that ...

The Java development world has seen a lot of changes in the past couple of years, and the dust is just beginning to settle. Here's a look at the changes that will persist through 2015 and which ones ...