Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.

Overall, Visual Studio Code is very good as a Java IDE if you install the Extension Pack for Java. It’s merely OK as a Java editor without the extension pack, as becomes obvious when you run ...

Open source licenses Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team for Java development added a new Coding Pack for Java installer and detailed best practices for setting up a development environment.

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 ...

Project Sumatra is further making it easier for developers and end users of programs written in Java to realize those potential performance gains.