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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2022

February 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022 02/10/22
Nick Zhu
Hi everyone, welcome to the February update of Visual Studio Code Java and this time we have a special edition for education! Many schools are back in session after the winter holidays, and in order to provide student and educators a better experience using Java on Visual Studio Code this semester, we have been making a series of improvements ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2022

January 20, 2022 Jan 20, 2022 01/20/22
Nick Zhu
Hi everyone, welcome to the January edition of Visual Studio Code Java update! Since this is our first blog post of the new year, we are going to look back on highlights of 2021 and take a look at our roadmap for 2022! We also have some exciting feature updates so let us get started. Highlights of 2021 2021 was a productive year for Java on ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – October 2021

November 24, 2021 Nov 24, 2021 11/24/21
Nick Zhu
Hi everyone, welcome to the October edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update! In this post, we are going to take a deep dive of the recent performance improvement on auto-completion. Performance Improvement - Faster Code Completion With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made substantial improvement on the ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2021

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

Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!

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

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

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