Nowadays, an increasing number of applications uses deserialization. This technique, based on rebuilding the instance of objects from serialized byte streams, can be dangerous since it can open the application to attacks such as remote code execution (RCE... (more…)

In July 2017, Java 9 will be released including the brand-new module system. This short introduction gets you started with modular development in Java 9. (more…)

I recently watched a “comment tennis match” between 2 people here on DZone where each was entrenched in their view of the Scala versus Java debate. I thought that I should give my reasons to make the switch since I recently did the “cross-over” to...

Welcome to the update of Java on Visual Studio Code for November. In this update, we are excited to announce a new wizard for Java runtime configuration. Back to September, we published a blog clarifying: 1) Java 11 as minimum version of JDK is only requi... (more…)

The Vector API enables developers to express data parallel computation, leveraging SIMD hardware on Intel and ARM CPUs. The API was introduced as an incubati... (more…)