Oracle has extended public updates for Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 until at least January 2019. These had been slated to end in September 2018.

In 2019, Java had two major releases, Jakarta EE switched to open community, and Python overtakes Java in popularity.

Gartner analyst Ann Thomas saw the writing on the wall for Java EE, now Eclipse Jakarta, at least a year before that startling standards-body hand-off. She believes Oracle's new subscription model is ...

“It seemed inconceivable that we could turn a ship as big as Java around that fast,” said Java Language Architect Brian Goetz in his keynote address at Code One 2019 in San Francisco. “There ...