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.

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 ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2021

Yaojin Yang March 14, 2021 Mar 14, 2021 03/14/21

Welcome to the February edition of VS Code update for Java. Spring is approaching. It’s a season for refreshing, no exception to VS Code. In this edition, we will present you with our experiment of a new Welcome Page and re-designed icons. We hope you like the new looking and more importantly, enjoy the upcoming Spring season.

Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture

Asir Selvasingh March 11, 2021 Mar 11, 2021 03/11/21

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices. Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2021

Yaojin Yang February 8, 2021 Feb 8, 2021 02/8/21

Welcome to the first edition of VS Code update for Java in 2021. We got some questions around how to run tests on VS Code, so in this blog we will walk you through the how. Meanwhile, we will share the news of releasing Azure Spring Cloud extension. The extension is for you to create, manage and deploy apps to Azure Spring Cloud service.

What’s New in Azure Spring Cloud after GA

Kylie Liang January 28, 2021 Jan 28, 2021 01/28/21

Microsoft and VMware co-announced Azure Spring Cloud General Availability (GA). You will learn the newest features and enhancements to monitor and secure your apps since GA and what's upcoming. Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping these features, keep the feedback coming.

Effortlessly monitor applications and dependencies in Azure Spring Cloud!

Asir Selvasingh January 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 01/21/21

We are excited to announce that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is now fully integrated into Azure Spring Cloud, powered by Application Insights.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – December 2020

Yaojin Yang January 11, 2021 Jan 11, 2021 01/11/21

Happy New Year to everyone. In this edition, besides sharing the latest enhancements made in December, we would like to invite you for a quick poll, which will take less than 2 minutes, but is valuable for us to learn what will make VS Code a better tool for you in 2021.

New Java learning path on Microsoft Learn

Julien Dubois December 15, 2020 Dec 15, 2020 12/15/20

MS Learn is Microsoft's flagship learning platform, delivering free online tutorials for everyone to study, understand and deliver great technical projects to the cloud. Today, we deliver a Java learning path on MS Learn, so all Java developers can benefit from the power of Azure. Java at Microsoft is huge It's been a long journey for ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – November 2020

Yaojin Yang December 14, 2020 Dec 14, 2020 12/14/20

In this update, we are excited to announce a new wizard for Java runtime configuration. The wizard streamlines JDK configuration experience for your project. Please, try it and let us know how you like it. In addition, we share two enhancement features, 1) infer selection range from cursor position and 2) export JAR through custom task.