Mojang is ending the obfuscation of Minecraft Java Edition's code very soon, which will make it easier than ever to create ...

"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community. The ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

IBM subsidiary Red Hat has released a new extension for Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor. Language Support for Java by Red Hat, available on the VS Code Marketplace, ...

The latest update to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java source code editor includes new built-in support for the Lombok Java library tool, as well as some fundamental user ...

Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. "Java 19 brings the first preview of virtual threads to the Java ...