Java Core

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Nov 4, 2020 Helen Scott

The Java SE landscape is strewn with acronyms picked up over the last 25 years. Sometimes those acronyms even mean multiple things!

Let's continue this series, by looking at JEP 330, Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs, which is a new features introduced in OpenJDK …

From OpenJDK 11 onwards, you get the option to launch a single Java source file directly, without intermediate compilation.

Jul 22, 2020 Marcus Hirt

Everything about JVM vendors & OpenJDK distributions, upgrading from one Java release to the next, and information on where to get the JDK …

As a language, Java has evolved over the last 25 years in a way that has provided excellent backwards compatibility. Here's an overview of …

Unless you are creating all your images, by drawing then inside the code with the Graphics2D commands, you will need an image library to …

BufferedImage is one of the most useful Java abstractions. It hides all the complexity of different types of images whilst allowing access …

There are lots of different ways of describing Color. As developers, we are most familiar with the RGB model, where every color is defined …

Java makes images simple to use. You can work with a BufferedImage and just load or save this to any supported image file format. A …