Feature planning is underway for Java SE 9, the next major update to the language and platform used by millions of developers around the world. An initial set of Java Enhancement Proposals targeting ...

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Reports of Java’s death have been greatly exaggerated — said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is ...

This is Part Three of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Three, I will explore how the Java.next languages (JRuby, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala) support dispatch. For my purposes here, dispatch ...