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AOT Compilation in HotSpot: Introduction

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Ludovic Henry
Introduce the AOT Compiler that was introduced in Java 9 with the addition of the jaotc command-line utility. Explore some of the tradeoffs it needs to take, how the generated code fits in the Tiered Compilation pipeline, go through a simple example, and take a look at some alternatives (JIT at Startup, JIT caching, and Distributed JIT).

Java on Visual Studio Code July Update

July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19
Xiaokai He
Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code! In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks. Refactoring Trigger after After performing refactoring, more often than not, we would like to assign the result with...

Java on Visual Studio Code April Update

May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 05/1/19
Xiaokai He
Welcome to April update! Java 12 is now officially supported with Visual Studio Code. We'd also like to show you some new and helpful code actions now available, along with new features from Debugger, Maven and CheckStyle. Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Java 12 ...

Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code

December 1, 2017 Dec 1, 2017 12/1/17
Xiaokai He
Today, we’re pleased to release a new extension to our Visual Studio Code Java extension family - Test Runner/Debugger for Java. It’s a lightweight test runner/debugger with below features we hope you will like. (image) Same as the Debugger for Java, this is also an open source project. Please check out the github page ...

Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
Xiaokai He
In the past 3 weeks, we’ve continued to see a lot of people installing and trying our tools, reading our documents, and visiting our repository. We’ve also seen a number of new issues opened by the Java community. Thank you all for trying our tools and providing feedback, all of which is motivating us to make VS Code a better tool for Java...

Open Sourcing the Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Xiaokai He
Since we first released our Java Debugger extension for Visual Studio Code on September 28, it quickly became the most trending extension of the month. And of course, lots of feedback and suggestions were submitted from our active developer community. You shared, we listened. In this quick follow up release, we’re open sourcing both our Java...