At first glance, choosing the best container base image for a Java application may seem simple enough. Teams tend to approach the issue by optimizing layer by layer: they choose the smallest base ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python. Java 26 will be supported for just six ...

This will take a few minutes. Attention: the generated file has a size of approx. 12 GB, so make sure to have enough diskspace. If you're running the challenge with a non-Java language, there's a ...

The quarterly release of Eclipse IDE 2026-03 brings some new features alongside bug fixes, such as the Java refactoring function "Convert Class to Record".

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...