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.

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

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.