Most experienced developers have experienced some form of system rot: the quality of a program deteriorates over time and it becomes more and more expensive to update and maintain it. This is often ...

The first early access builds of JDK 9 with Project Jigsaw, the initiative that's bringing modularity to the Java platform, are now available for download. Before you jump in, you should definitely ...

Oracle, which officially took on the big job of shepherding Java two years ago this month, is traveling bumpy roads lately, with its modularization and licensing plans for Java raising eyebrows and ...

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