Kotlin 2.3.0, now available in a release candidate, also brings Java 25 support and improvements for Swift interop, ...

Mojang has dropped some huge news for Minecraft Java players - especially those that love to mod. While the modding scene is already thriving in Minecraft, it's not as accessible as you'd expect for ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in pre-trained models have rapidly expanded their applicability to various software engineering challenges. Despite this progress, current research predominantly focuses ...

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 ...

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Janino compiles java-source to bytecode. The bytecode can be stored in .class-files. Those class-files can be stored in .jar-files (Let us call them janino-jars for a moment). Those janino-jar-files ...

Normally, a VM defines the semantics of it's programming language. In case of Java, the corresponding instruction set represents a multi-threaded stack machine, where values are kept on the heap, or ...

Java faced an existential crisis very early in its existence, in the late ’90s. Microsoft attempted to create its own version of the language, dubbed Visual J++, that integrated with its development ...

Abstract: Decompilation of Java bytecode is the act of transforming Java bytecode to Java source code. Although easier than that of decompilation of machine code, problems still arise in Java bytecode ...