As AI and LLMs continue to evolve, agentic workflows are rapidly emerging as the next wave of AI-assistance. Agentic workflows allow AI systems to coordinate tasks and make decisions with minimal human input. These systems use autonomous agents in their workflow and can bring enormous benefits as they can create plans, perform individual tasks, emp...

Hi everyone, welcome to the September update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog, we will cover some important Spring feature updates and Gradle enhancements, let's get started! Spring Updates Explain SpEL expressions, query statements, and AOP pointcut expressions with GitHub Copilot SpEL expressions, query statements, and AOP pointcu...

Hi everyone, welcome to the August update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog, we will cover important Gradle updates, more user experience improvements, and an improved getting started experience, let's get started! Gradle Updates Adding Gradle for Java into Extension Pack for Java Some of our users might have noticed that recently in...

Hi everyone, welcome to the July update for Visual Studio Code for Java! This blog will cover the latest Gradle enhancements, user experience improvements and new Spring features, so let's get started! Gradle enhancements HCR Support for Gradle Build Server HCR (Hot Code Replace) is an advanced feature that debugger supports in VS Code Java. It ...

Hi everyone, welcome to the June update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog we are going to share several user experience updates, as well as important Spring features improvements, so let's get started! Project Settings Page Enhancements New Compiler Section A new compiler section was added to the project settings page. This allows yo...

Hi everyone, welcome to the May update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog we are going to share an exciting new AI related feature for Java developers on Visual Studio Code. In addition, there will be several important Spring updates, so let's get started. Rewriting your Java code with Copilot-based suggestions As our code undergoes up...

Hi everyone, welcome to the April update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog we are going to share our roadmap for the next few months, and also recent product updates such as JDK 22 support and redesigned Project Settings experience, so let's get started! Roadmap for the next 6 months We are excited to share our roadmap for the next si...

Hi everyone, welcome to the March update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog we are going to share several new Spring Boot features as well as testing coverage updates, so let's get started! Spring Boot Feature Updates New Refactoring Preview available for version upgrades The feature to automatically upgrade your projects to the lates...

Hi everyone, welcome to the February update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog we are going to share improvements for the project management experience as well as Maven multi-module support, so let's get started! More Convenient Ways to Create New Java Projects We have often heard from developers that they need more convenient options ...

Hi everyone, welcome to the first update for Visual Studio Code for Java of 2024! We hope everyone had a refreshing break. In this blog we have some exciting updates for the new Test Coverage UX as well as reliability and general user experience updates, so let's get started! Update of Java 21 Feature Support As shared in our roadmap blog post la...