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

Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing platform now has beta support for Java programming, a feature developers have demanded since Azure Functions’ 2016 debut.

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

Java developers can now use Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless computing platform, to build and deploy applications on the Redmond, Wash. software marker’s cloud.

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.