Project Coin provides numerous “small language enhancements” as a subset of the new JDK 7 features. I recently blogged on Project Coin‘s switching on Strings and in this post I write about the new ...

Java, the 14-year-old language and application platform founded by Sun Microsystems, is set to take on a more modular approach with the planned Java SE Development Kit 7 upgrade to the platform, Sun ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...