Zulu 8.0 is available now as a free download from the Azul Systems Web site here. The Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java can be downloaded from the MS Open Tech site.

An email being sent by Oracle sales representatives about upcoming critical security updates for Java 8 being only available to licensed users has sparked controversy due to its wording that to ...

Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and the Nashorn JavaScript engine to Java. Some will also remember Java 8 for introducing various small ...