Sun's John Rose announced the first OpenJDK build with support for the invokedynamic keyword. In related blog posts, Rose and Java SE spec lead Danny Coward provide some background on this important JVM milestone.

ZeroTurnaround released JavaRebel 1.2, the latest version of its Java class re-loading tool. In this interview with Artima, ZeroTurnaround chief architect Jevgeni Kabanov explains JavaRebel's support for the Spring framework, as well as other new features of the latest release.

Block-based storage is well-known to most developers, since many disks and network-attached storage devices appear as block devices to software or to the operating system. Amazon.com this week launched a virtualized block-based storage service for its Elastic Compute Cloud.

The committee to oversee the next version of the JavaScript language decided to abandon a multi-year effort at standardizing ECMAScript 4, slated to be the next generation of JavaScript, and to revert to a more modest update to the language. Packages and Java-like classes won't be part of the next standard, for instance.

In his latest blog post, Steve Yegge says that requirements gathering is almost a sure-fire guarantee of eventual software product failure: If you don't know your product's requirements at the outset, your outcome will almost certainly not meet users' approval. Is requirements gathering an important, or even practical, step in the software process?

With a set of metrics, Coverity's new product aims to provide managers a true measure of risk in a code base. In an interview with Artima, Coverity CTO Ben Chelf explains why traditional code metrics alone don't provide sufficient insight into the riskiness of code.

Many discussions about caching focus on specific caching tools and APIs. In a recent blog post, Dhananjay Nene offers a tool-agnostic overview of designing an enterprise application for good cache performance.

IBM recently released a new version of its WebSphere Community Edition Java EE server. Based on Apache Geronimo, the latest WebSphere supports the ability to create a custom server assembly based on a Web application's profile, as well as the Geronimo command shell, and improved performance monitoring features.

In his popular blog, Jeff Atwood suggests that becoming a great developer has more to do with the quantity of code you produce than with an explicit desire to produce high-quality code from the start.

In his popular blog, Jeff Atwood suggests that becoming a great developer has more to do with the quantity of code you produce than with an explicit desire to produce high-quality code from the start.

In his popular blog, Jeff Atwood suggests that becoming a great developer has more to do with the quantity of code you produce than with an explicit desire to produce high-quality code from the start.

In his popular blog, Jeff Atwood suggests that becoming a great developer has more to do with the quantity of code you produce than with an explicit desire to produce high-quality code from the start.

JetBrains posted a beta version of its next-generation multi-language IDE, IDEA 8. The result of a major internal refactoring, IDEA 8 supports Flex, Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, and is designed as a platform for working with additional languages as well. IDEA 8 also provides tighter integration with major Web frameworks, such as Seam.

In an interview with Artima, Sun's Jacob Lehrbaum and Param Singh explain what the new JavaFX Preview SDK contains, and how it can help enterprise developers create more engaging user experiences.

Continuing his exploration of Scala features from a Java developer's viewpoint, Ted Neward explains how Scala's packages and access modifiers differ from Java's.