Introduction In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official ...

The Java ecosystem supports a host of outstanding back-end frameworks, including many written for modern languages like Scala and Kotlin. Here's how seven top frameworks for Java and JVM languages ...

Java Flight Recorder is a JVM profiler that continuously gathers performance metrics and won't cause performance issues or extra runtime costs.

[Dimitri] sent in a project he’s been working on that implements a Java Virtual Machine purely in C, and is easily portable between microcontrollers such as the AVRs and PICs we normally see ...

Simone Bordet and Cay Horstmann discuss Java’s new release cadence which brings exciting new features at a more consistent pace, Java's strongest points, and what we are missing.

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a vital part of modern distributed computing. It is the platform of big data applications like Spark, HDFS, Cassandra,and Hive. While the JVM provides “write once, ...

In parallel, the implementation work is proceeding well, and it is expected that a prototype suitable for JVM hackers, framework authors and those comfortable with bytecode will be available soon.

They all work together to let developers build and run Java programs. I’ve previously introduced the JDK and JVM.