Demonstrating its continued investment in the world's #1 programming language, Oracle today announced the release of the Java Development Kit 8, Update 40 . From small devices to smart cities, Java ...

A February survey of 2,870 Java developers taken by middleware vendor Typesafe, proponents of the Scala JVM languag e, found that 29 percent plan to upgrade to Java Standard Edition 8, due on ...

Latest release of the JVM language also features hundreds of new and improved extension methods including 10x faster arrays.