DPJ-ported parallel code can co-exist with ordinary Java code within the same application, so that programs can be incrementally ported to DPJ, the UPCRC said.

With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

Hazelcast has roots planted deeply in the Java language and platform (its IMDG is written in Java), but the company has spread its support over the years, thanks in part to the efforts of its open ...

Native support for HSA’s specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code. The JVM will recognize ...

1. Lambda expressions Lambda expressions are the biggest features integrated into Java 8. This functional programming paradigm was, until now, missing from Java.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.