Java at Microsoft

Announcing Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

Bruno Borges April 6, 2021 Apr 6, 2021 04/6/21

Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – June 2021

Nick Zhu July 8, 2021 Jul 8, 2021 07/8/21

Hi everyone, welcome to the special mid-year edition for Visual Studio Code Java updates. As the highlight of this post, we are going to take a look at our product roadmap for next few months. We will also showcase some important new features & improvements as we did in previous blog posts. So let us get right into it. July to December ...

End of Updates, Support and Availability of the Zulu for Azure builds of OpenJDK

Bruno Borges June 30, 2021 Jun 30, 2021 06/30/21

Starting January 1st, 2022, Microsoft and Azul will no longer provide updates or support for the Zulu for Azure build of OpenJDK. In addition, repositories, and the user download site for Zulu for Azure binaries may no longer be available after July 1st, 2022.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – May 2021

Yaojin Yang June 15, 2021 Jun 15, 2021 06/15/21

Welcome to May’s updates on VS Code for Java. In this edition, we will share with you Java Formatter Settings Editor, generating tests from source file, debugging enhancement and Jupyter Notebook for Java.

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

gadams May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. As we said previously when we announced the Preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, Java is heavily used by Microsoft with more than 500,...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2021

Yaojin Yang May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

Welcome to VS Code update for Java. Another busy and productive month. Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner extensions got new features.

Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!

Asir Selvasingh May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud. You can get started by building your pipelines using the Azure Spring Cloud task to automate Spring Boot application deployments to any number of environments and Azure Regions. Over the past 18 months...

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11.0.11 & 16.0.1 (EA) Available

gadams April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

The Java at Microsoft Team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 11.0.11 & 16.0.1 (EA for Windows AArch64 / ARM64).

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2021

Yaojin Yang April 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021 04/20/21

It’s blogging time again. Welcome to VS Code update for Java. In the last couple of months, our engineers have been working on a few very important things. Now, it’s time to uncover. Let’s start.

Microsoft JFR Streaming Library for Java Flight Recorder

David Grieve April 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021 04/12/21

Today we are happy to share the first release of our JFR Streaming library. With this library, developers can easily manage Java Flight Recordings programmatically. It includes commonly expected features such as starting and stopping a flight recording on a local or remote JVM and reading the recorded file as an InputStream. Azure ...