Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.

Many apps fail to make full use of the capabilities of the JIT compiler.In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...

Chuck Phillips reports that the boom in application servers now raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created.

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Waratek responded quickly and launched Java Application Security which detects and ...

Despite its current shortcomings, gcc-java shows great promise as the foundation of a completely free Java stack, and it already can be used to build many real-world applications; see the on-line ...

However, there is hardly any mention of Java and assembly language code working together. In an earlier article I showed how assembly language programs can be called from Java applications.

Macros enable one to customize applications so that the operations they perform can be shared among users in an organization or over the Internet.