Project Coin provides numerous “small language enhancements” as a subset of the new JDK 7 features. I recently blogged on Project Coin‘s switching on Strings and in this post I write about the new ...

Java, the 14-year-old language and application platform founded by Sun Microsystems, is set to take on a more modular approach with the planned Java SE Development Kit 7 upgrade to the platform, Sun ...

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On Tuesday Oracle announced the latest update of version 7 of the Java Development Kit. Update 40 (JDK 7u40) adds a number of new features, including advanced monitoring and diagnostic capabilities, a ...

Moreover, if you want to track the progress of the various projects composing JDK 7, you may want to subscribe to their mailing lists. On January 13 th 2011, Mark Reinhold – chief architect of the ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

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Oracle reversed course this week on its earlier decision to cut the popular Time Zone Updater (TZUpdater) tool from the latest version of the Java Development Kit (JDK 7) -- or was that just a slip of ...