Google has asked the US Supreme Court to review its nine-year copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of Java APIs in Android. Google is asking the Supreme Court to make a decision on two overruled ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

After a plan to eliminate use of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9 drew heavy criticism, Oracle crafted a workaround to keep the API functional Addressing a controversy over a popular but unsupported Java API ...

Developers can feel some relief now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Google in its landmark copyright case versus Oracle. Oracle sued Google more than a decade ago, claiming that the ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...