Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Oracle has released Java 25 (Oracle JDK 25), the newest version of the language and platform that has been around for over three decades. The update brings thousands of improvements, many aimed at ...

TIOBE Index for September 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent Perl experienced a slight decline in the TIOBE Programming Community Index rankings between August ...

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However, if you want to customize the way a field maps to a database column, you can decorate a property with the @Column annotation. Along with the name property, the JPA @Column annotation can ...

This is part three of our series on the latest Java features, and the new rules available in SonarQube to help check for the proper usage of Class-file new API and Stream gatherers, ensuring your code ...

Validate JSON. The library rejects invalid JSON in most cases, but it is not designed as a strict JSON validating parser. Support more JSON features. The library intentionally does not provide bean ...

Java’s internal systems and syntax are constantly evolving, and these changes happen primarily through the Java Community Process (JCP) and Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs). Together, the JCP and ...