Java Community Process (JCP) version 2.11, with a focus on streamlining the JCP program takes effect December 14th. This blog post is on the latest JCP.Next effort to streamline the JCP program JSR lifecycle in response to feedback from the Java development community and the faster release cadence introduced in 2017.

SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to developme...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 12 soon could be minus one feature that had been targeted for the release: a beta version of raw string literals. Meant to ease developing with Java, a raw string literal can span multiple lines of source code and does not interpret escape sequences. But the developers of this feature no longer are confident that the beta capability will be ready when JDK 12 is releas...