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Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts bytecode into machine language. It may also refer to compiling the ...

The latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. The 1.8 release was timed to coincide with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode ...

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ZURICH—This alpine city is cool, efficient, and fun. Fittingly, so are the young software developers here who are fine-tuning a groundbreaking multilingual virtual machine. GraalVM may be an under-the ...

Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Write once, run everywhere: that's the slogan the Java community uses to propagate their language-of-choice. It's probably true, but only if you first manage to set up the beast on your box. This ...

Using generics results in more robust code and avoids ClassCastExceptions in your Java programs. This in-depth tutorial introduces you to generics and their types and methods. Generics are used in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...