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November 2022 - Microsoft for Java Developers

What’s the deal with humongous objects in Java?

November 28, 2022 Nov 28, 2022 11/28/22
Stephanie Crater
As a Software Engineer in Microsoft’s Java Engineering Group, part of my job is to analyze and improve the performance of Java’s garbage collectors. As a Java application runs, the garbage collector is responsible for allocating objects on the heap and freeing up heap space when those objects are no longer live. In this blog post, I’ll ...

Two million Java developers on Visual Studio Code! November 2022 Update

November 27, 2022 Nov 27, 2022 11/27/22
Nick Zhu
Hi everyone, we are excited to share that now there are over two million Java developers on Visual Studio Code, this wouldn't be possible without all the support from the community and our users, so thank you! For November update, we are bringing you new code editing feature such as postfix completion, optimized organize import. In addition...

Java on Azure Tooling Update – October 2022

November 1, 2022 Nov 1, 2022 11/1/22
Jialuo Gan
Hi everyone, welcome back to the October update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce our new roadmap in the next few months. In addition, we have made some improvements for developers to use deployment slots for Azure Functions in IDEs directly with our latest release. Please download and install the Azure Toolkit for ...