Open-source Java projects advance Jakarta EE compatibility, persistence capabilities, and developer tooling as enterprise teams prepare for the next generation of Java applications.

The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse IDE 2026-06, the second quarterly simultaneous release of the Eclipse IDE platform this year, with support for Java 26 and updates across the Java platform, ...

AI on the JVM accelerates: New frameworks like Embabel, Koog, Spring AI, and LangChain4j drive rapid adoption of AI-native and AI-assisted development in Java. Java 25 anchors a modern baseline: The ...

Embabel, an open source framework for authoring AI agentic flows on the JVM, has been launched by Spring Framework founder Rod Johnson. Johnson aims for Embabel to become the natural way to integrate ...

Broadcom launched Spring Boot 3.5, which delivers improved configuration, containers, and SSL. The release ships with breaking configuration changes and gets only 13 months of free releases, but adds ...

IntelliJ version 2025.1.4 focuses on fixing issues rather than adding new features. Dart closing labels now appear as inlay hints, allowing more user customization. The update resolves false-positive ...

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Transitioning from Java to Kotlin. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning. If you’re a web developer, you may be considering a ...

Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...