Learn how to use synchronous and asynchronous callbacks in Java—including callbacks with lambda expressions, CompletableFuture, and more.

In JDK 1.4, assertions were introduced as a new mechanism for testing and debugging assumptions about Java code. In essence, assertions are compilable entities that execute at runtime, assuming ...

Java without semi-colons? The software development community has drawn battle lines between languages that require semicolons at the end of the statement and languages that don’t. With JShell, Java ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Java 8 ternary operator A bug in a Java 8 support release caused the ternary operator to behave incorrectly in certain corner-cases. The bug has been fixed, and should not be a problem today. More to ...

Two decades of large-scale investment in Java's developing language and platform is strikingly rare in the history of languages.

Which version of Java should you use in Linux? Learn how to easily switch between different versions with a tutorial from Jack Wallen.

That being said, if you must use Java, do not use the one that comes from Java.com, which is the variant that includes the shovelware install that Ed has written about.