Install the Java Project Manager extension. When the installation completes, VS Code will be fully capable to validate source code, create Maven projects, run tests and execute Java classes that have ...

That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

VS Code for Java will still be possible to compile and run Java applications from Java 1.5 to 14," said Yaojin Yang, senior program manager, Developer Division at Microsoft, in a June 28 blog post.

Planned Java-related improvements for VS Code range from smarter code completion and better debugging to deeper integration with Kubernetes and cloud services.

How to run VS Code AI Mode to boost coding To run the VS Code AI Mode, you need to open a code file. It could be anything, including PHP, JS, Java, C#, or anything else.

Before last week's launch of the three new extensions, the VS Code team announced support for JUnit via the Java Test Runner extension. The lightweight test runner/debugger recognizes JUnit4 tests ...