The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

End your tour of Java's essential language features with Java 8's method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates, then preview new features coming ...

Java is a popular programming language that every programmer should learn. This article explains much of what you need to know.

This post compares Python vs Java. What are the differences in terms of structure and design? Which is easier for beginners? And what can you do with them?

Java recently celebrated its 30 year anniversary. Despite its age, the language is still going strong and maintains its relevance.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language.

James Ward is a Java Champion and Google’s Kotlin product manager. In this interview, he speaks about the state of Java, JVM languages, mutability, and functional programming.

InfoQ examines three techniques for encouraging experimentation with potential new Java language features - DSLs, the annotation processor, and moving the syntactic sugar from the language to the IDE.