The code snippet was provided as an answer to a StackOverflow question posted in September 2010. The code snippet printed byte counts (123,456,789 bytes) in a human-readable format, like 123.5 MB.

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. Java 19 shipped a month ago with a preview of Virtual Threads and ...

The Java Runtime Environment provides a “container” for those elements and your code to run in. The JDK is the “compiler” that interprets the code itself and executes it.

Since the JDK supplies the compiler for your Java programs, the JDK you use determines what Java version you can code in. For example, if you want to use functional programming features, then you ...

“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

In this blog post, I look at how Java code can use the Package class to access version information about a particular Java package’s specification and implementation.

After a Java static code analysis runs, PMD provides a report of the offending lines of code. PMD can identify common problems such as the hard coding of passwords and IP addresses, the use of a ...

When an exception occurs in your Java code, you can log it or you can rethrow it -- but don't do both. Here's why you must avoid that exception handling antipattern.

The error Java update did not complete, Error Code 1618 prevents users from installing or updating Java on their system. Here is a working fix.

Using the VS Code Java Debugger (source: Microsoft). On the Reddit social programming site, reaction to the news was mixed. On the negative side, one developer said: "I've toyed with VSCode for my day ...