Write once, debug/test everywhere is a variant on Java's write once, run anywhere claim, and it defines the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). The JPDA is a client/server system built from ...

Less than a month after Microsoft released a Visual Studio Code extension to provide Java debugging, the company announced it was such a big hit that it's been improved and open sourced, as promised.

The Java Class File Disassembler (javap) is a useful tool for the Java developer that I have referenced in previous blog posts covering a variety of contexts such as detecting the innards of a Groovy ...

The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code (VS Code), announced last week, focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features. For Java developers using Microsoft's streamlined ...

Visual Studio Code is getting more Java programming functionality in a new extension from Microsoft that adds debugging capabilities. We earlier reported that, in view of the lack of support for Java ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

VMware this week released a new version of its Micro Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) with support for Java debugging. Available now, version 1.2 adds a Java debugger designed to allow ...

In a major revision of its modular Java tool suite, Enerjy Software in the new Edition 7 have included enhancements that simplify and speed up Java coding, debugging, profiling and migration to the ...

Containerization is changing how the software development teams build and deploy applications, so it's no surprise to discover that at JavaOne 2015, sessions on Docker and Kubernetes flooded the ...