The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code is focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team for Java development added a new Coding Pack for Java installer and detailed best practices for setting up a development environment.

Microsoft's Java in Visual Studio Code has been updated with new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging.

The regular monthly update to Java tooling on Visual Studio Code is light on new features but does provide a peek into future plans, which include improving the fundamental inner loop experience, ...

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

In this blog post, I look at how Java code can use the Package class to access version information about a particular Java package’s specification and implementation.

There’s even support for Java in Microsoft’s Azure DevOps pipelines, so you can quickly move existing code from an on-premises repository to a cloud-hosted CI/CD pipeline.