The OpenJDK has reached a milestone by announcing the Early Access (EA) build for Project Leyden. This build represents over a year of development efforts to enhance Java application performance ...

Oracle has introduced a new effort to help ease enduring Java pain points such as slow startups, protracted time to peak performance and large footprints. The effort, known as Project Leyden, ...

Open source licenses Each of the Java projects covered in this series is subject to an open source license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

The developers behind the Sumatra project are currently focusing on developing OpenCL support with Java 8 technologies, but they expect the development research to influence GPU hardware ...

OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects. OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, which explores ...