Hopefully, Java 8 will be released as planned in late 2012 with all the stuff we’ve been waiting for. If so, I expect most shops will skip Java 7.

An executive from Oracle, the company that oversees the Java language, and other industry veterans spelled out what the changes mean to developers at the QCon 2019 London conference.

This post compares Python vs Java. What are the differences in terms of structure and design? Which is easier for beginners? And what can you do with them?

Oracle released Java 7 on July 28, 2011. This is nearly 5 years after the release of Java 6 in December 2006. The release received a lot of bad press, both because it is very meager on features, and ...