65% of Java developers have plans to upgrade to Java 8 within the next 24 months. 54% plan to upgrade within the next 12 months. 29% plan to upgrade within the next six months. And only 1% of Java ...

Java 8 arrived earlier this year to much fanfare, including high marks for lambda expressions and JavaScript on the JVM via Nashorn. But not everything about Java 8 was a love fest, and core ...

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition that, ...