In a video, Nicolai Parlog presents the plans for JDK projects in 2025, including Babylon, Loom and Leyden, and provides insights into upcoming developments.

The Community Editions of the GraalVM JIT and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilers will move to OpenJDK in 2023. Existing releases, GraalVM Enterprise Edition features, and other GraalVM projects will not.

The Java Native Interface offers a complex and potentially error-prone approach to accessing native code from your Java programs. This month Jeff Friesen introduces JNA: an open source Java ...

Project Galahad, announced in 2022, aims to "contribute Java-related GraalVM technologies to the OpenJDK Community and prepare them for possible incubation in a JDK mainline release." ...

Which is better for your next Java GUI project: Java Swing vs. JavaFX? This tip explores their history and capabilities to help you choose the right one.

When developers use Maven in Java projects, task automation becomes easier, testing becomes integrated into the build process and the standardized project structure and development conventions make it ...

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.

First revealed in August, Project Sumatra uses the features and libraries of Java 8’s Lambda Project as well as Oracle’s HotSpot for the Java Virtual Machine.

Open source licenses Each of the Java projects covered in this series is subject to an open source license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.