Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

- Sealed Classes (JEP 360) included as a new preview feature, and Pattern Matching for instanceof (JEP 375) and Records (JEP 384) added as second previews for further developer feedback REDWOOD SHORES ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.