InfoWorld

Eclipse Luna picks up Java 8, PHP, C/C++ support

Eclipse IDE's annual release adds Java 8 support, enhanced C/C++ and PHP tools, and support for the Paho platform The latest version of the Eclipse IDE, Luna, has been released today, with support for ...
ZDNet

Java finally goes all in on open source with the Jakarta EE 8 release

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...
TheServerSide

Red Hat replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 steward

Red Hat has assumed stewardship from Oracle over OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11, which strengthens Red Hat's support for the Java community -- particularly enterprise Java developers. OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK ...
InfoWorld

Get started with lambda expressions in Java

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...
Bleeping Computer

Oracle Sends Warning Emails About Paid-for Critical Java 8 Update

"Java SE 8 is going through the End of Public Updates process for legacy releases. Oracle will continue to provide free public updates and auto updates of Java SE 8, until at least the end of December ...