Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

Java 8 is into the wild and it brings along a number of new and useful features like lambda expressions and the streams API.

To celebrate Java’s 25th anniversary this year, JetBrains has compiled data from multiple sources to look at what the current state of the language is.

New frameworks are gaining traction among developers “Ruby, PHP, Python, and similar platforms have definitely taken a big chunk out of the Java brain trust,” said Hansson.

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...