It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

In this article, Ben Evans explores some features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8.

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

Java, the programming language used by millions of developers, is now even better. The launch of Java 8 on March 25 represents the most significant update to the Java programming model ever, and ...

The free and open source Zulu 8.0 is compatible and compliant with the recently launched Java SE 8.

This article explores some of Java 8’s new features, using both Java’s proposed syntax and Scala. We cover lambda expressions, higher-order functions, parallel collections and virtual ...