With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

VS Code combines impressive Java support with first-class support for JavaScript and other stacks, making a compelling alternative to traditional IDEs. Let’s try it with Spring and Svelte. For years, ...

The software company introduces JBuilder X, an overhaul to its Java programming tool intended to simplify Web application and Web services development. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

When I first heard about Mainsoft Corp.’s Visual MainWin for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), I thought the concept was a harebrained idea. Just skimming some of the product’s help topics sent me ...

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java has arrived with lots of improvements in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to support for the recently released ...

The latest monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds a Gradle extension, simplifies Code Actions execution and leverages an "important milestone," the v1.0 release of a new language server ...

Microsoft Visual J# .NET is not a tool for developing applications intended to run on a Java Virtual Machine. Applications and services built with Visual J# .NET will run only in the .NET Framework.

Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server. "With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made ...

Developers, coders and hobbyists that use the excellent Visual Studio Code application to code may be interested to know that Microsoft has rolled out a new Visual Studio Code Java update. The Java ...

Red Hat has added new functionality to the Java-enabled version of Microsoft's enormously popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor via its language support extension, Language Support for Java for ...

BEA Systems is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook with its latest Java tools strategy. In a bid to widen its lead in the e-business software market, BEA is courting software developers with a ...