Java turned 30 in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

In the modern information society, programming is one of the key competencies that ensure development and innovative progress. Java programming, due to its popularity and versatility, remains one of ...

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The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) release of NetBeans 10.0 (incubating) at the end of December launched the venerable Java (now polyglot) IDE into 2019 with a slew of enhancements, including ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

It's not currently possible to start Glassfish 4.1 on JDK 9 builds. To start with then domain.xml still lists the MaxPermSize option, this has been removed in JDK 9 ...

Yes I even did that . But it throwed some compilation errors. Looks like some of the 1.6 features like static are being used in the code. Is there any chance of making the source code work with 1.5 ?