Java at Microsoft

Announcing 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.

Gradle  – Deploy Java web apps to Azure in one step!

Yuchen Wang September 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021 09/22/21

We are excited to announce a new Gradle plugin for Azure Web Apps. This plugin lets Java developers deploy Gradle projects to Azure Web Apps in one step, without installing any Azure specific tools.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2021

Nick Zhu September 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021 09/15/21

Hi everyone, welcome to the August edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update. In this post, we are going to share some exciting updates from the SpringOne 2021 conference as well as various user experience improvements. SpringOne 2021 Updates When it comes to Java development, we always keep Spring developers in mind. In this year's ...

Join Microsoft at SpringOne 2021

Nate Ceres August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21

Microsoft has our biggest ever presence at SpringOne this year. We’re excited to share a range of sessions across topics, all in close partnership with VMware.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – July 2021

Nick Zhu August 9, 2021 Aug 9, 2021 08/9/21

Hi everyone, welcome to the July edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update. In this post, we are going to share the progress of our overall product roadmap, and highlight improved user experience of our testing, Maven dependency management, and project management features. Testing Our Java extensions are among the first to adopt the ...

Introducing Microsoft GCToolkit

Kirk Pepperdine August 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 08/5/21

Microsoft’s Java Engineering Group is excited to announce we have open-sourced the Microsoft GCToolkit on GitHub. GCToolkit is a set of libraries for analyzing Java garbage collection (GC) log files. The toolkit parses GC log files into discrete events and provides an API for aggregating data from those events. This allows the user to create...

July PSU and General Availability Microsoft Build of OpenJDK for M1 and ARM64

Bruno Borges August 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 08/5/21

Today we are announcing the July PSU for Java 11 and Java 16 for Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the GA of AArch64 builds, and we are also glad to see the Eclipse Temurin distribution has released its first binaries, including OpenJDK HotSpot for Java 8.

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,...