Microsoft has released the March update for its popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its widely used cross-platform code editor. It's also released an update for Java on VS Code ...

The Java Extension Mechanism is described in the Java Tutorial as a “standard, scalable way to make custom APIs available to all applications running on the Java platform.” As described in ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

In a blog post today, Microsoft's Xiaokai He announced Visual Studio IntelliCode was being added to the Java Extension Pack. "After releasing it 3 months ago, we see more and more developers adopting ...

When Java applications are deployed, all of the files that constitute the Java app are compressed and packaged into a single file. While compressed files are typically given a .zip extension, the Java ...

Google’s Jib allows developers to optimize the creation of Docker containers for Java apps, and tweak the process by customizing plug-ins for Maven and Gradle Google has extended its Jib ...