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What’s the deal with humongous objects in Java?

November 28, 2022 Nov 28, 2022 11/28/22

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 ...

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK – October 2022 PSU Release

October 24, 2022 Oct 24, 2022 10/24/22

Derek Keeler

We are happy to announce the latest patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. You can find the usual updates from the OpenJDK upstream community: And you can also see the additional work that our team has put in place in our builds through the release notes. Starting with this release, developers can ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – October 2022

October 21, 2022 Oct 21, 2022 10/21/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the October update of Visual Studio Code Java. We have brought a lot of improvements in code editing and debugging experience this time, so let's get started!Debugging Experience EnhancementsVisual indicator for inline breakpointsConsider a line like this:Stream.of("Frank").map(name -> name.toUpperCase...

Java on Azure Tooling Update – September 2022

October 10, 2022 Oct 10, 2022 10/10/22

Jialuo Gan

Hi everyone, welcome back to September update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the Azure Cosmos DB Support, and Azure Virtual Machine Enhancement. In addition, we have made some improvements for users to create/update the dependencies with Azure SDK Reference Book. Please download and install the Azure Toolkit for ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – September 2022

September 15, 2022 Sep 15, 2022 09/15/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the September update of Visual Studio Code Java. We have tons of exciting new features this time, and there are improvements in many areas such as project import, Spring support, remote debugging and unit testing, so let's get started!Protobuf (Protocol Buffer) project support Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2022

August 25, 2022 Aug 25, 2022 08/25/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the August update of Visual Studio Code Java. In this month's update, we have brought more exciting features for Spring as well as improvements for build tools and debugging experience. Let's get started!Spring enhancementsSpring enhancements has been one of our top focuses this year. In our latest release, we are ...

A Concise Guide to Using Multiple Azure Storage Accounts from a Single Spring Boot Application

August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22

Hang Wang, Mark Heckler

Spring projects in general are opinionated: 80-90% of use cases are handled "by default", and code is often much more concise than would be required otherwise due to Spring's preference of convention over configuration. These and other "opinions" can result in dramatically less code to write and maintain and as a result, more focused impact...

Java on Azure Tooling Update – August 2022

August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22

Jialuo Gan

Hi everyone, welcome back to August update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the AKS support and Virtual Machine support. In addition, we make some improvements for users to search for subscriptions and find our tutorials easily. We hope these features could improve your user experience. So let us get started....