Microsoft is announcing at JavaOne that Java support is coming to its Azure Functions serverless service, fulfilling one of its biggest developer requests.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's serverless computing experience in the cloud, now officially supports the Java programming language and has also made it easier to work with TypeScript. Azure Functions, ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java.

Existing Java skills work well with newer Azure technologies, such as Functions. Serverless code can be written using Java SE 8 LTS, with each function a public method.

Serverless computing becomes a focus at JavaOne 2017, as Oracle introduces Project Fn and Microsoft previews Java support for Azure Functions.