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Say goodbye to “.project” files in Language Support for Javaâ„¢ 1.1.0

Recent 1.1.0 release of Language Support for Javaâ„¢ contains an important update: now when the extension imports a new Java project, the project metadata files ( .project , .classpath , settings, etc.) will no longer be generated in the project path by default. This issue was reported more than three years ago and it has been there since 2018...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – October 2021

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 ...

Announcing the 1.0 release of Language Support for Javaâ„¢ on Visual Studio Code

Today we are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Language Support for Javaâ„¢ by Red Hat on Visual Studio Code. We believe this is a significant milestone for Java support on Visual Studio Code and the result of a multi-year collaboration between Microsoft, Red Hat and the entire Visual Studio Code and Java community. This release wouldn't ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2021

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 ...