New features like var, auto-compile, text blocks, record classes, and more are shifting Java in subtle but powerful ways—toward a more flexible, dynamic future.

The use of Java inferred types with the var keyword. With this new syntax, the object type does not need to be explicitly declared on the left hand side of the initialization. Instead, the object type ...

Java 11 is getting long in the tooth, so many developers are moving to the next oldest version that's still supported, Java 17. Here's what's different.

When you initialize Java arrays with the new keyword, the size argument is of type int. The 32-bit Java int can go to a maximum of 2,147,483,647, so that is the theoretical maximum Java array size.