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Java OpenJDK July 2026 Patch & Security Update
Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest July 2026 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Check our release n...
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Spot every Spring Boot application issue on the spot using AppDynamics!
Today, we are excited to announce the integration of AppDynamics in the Azure Spring Cloud for full-stack observability. Over the past 20 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need to instrument them for application performance monitoring (APM) using solutions their developers are familiar with and have been using for years. In addition, they must ensure continuity for desktop and mobile applications that...
Announcing the 1.0 release of Language Support for Java™ on Visual Studio Code
Today we are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Language Support for Java™ 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 have been possible without your support and we want to thank everyone who has provided feedback or made contributions. Release highlights When we started with our very first release, our goal was to provide an outstanding Java development experience on Visual Studio Code...
Gradle – Deploy Java web apps to Azure in one step!
We are excited to announce a new Gradle plugin for Azure Web Apps. This plugin lets Java developers deploy Gradle projects to Azure Web Apps in one step, without installing any Azure specific tools.
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 SpringOne conference, we shared an update on our Spring tooling support in Visual Studio Code, and showcased various Spring related features in two breakout sessions. Spring Support on GitHub Codespaces We are excited to share that Spring framework is fully supported o...
Join Microsoft at SpringOne 2021
Microsoft has our biggest ever presence at SpringOne this year. We’re excited to share a range of sessions across topics, all in close partnership with VMware.
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – July 2021
Hi everyone, welcome to the July edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update. In this post, we are going to share the progress of our overall product roadmap, and highlight improved user experience of our testing, Maven dependency management, and project management features. Testing Our Java extensions are among the first to adopt the new Testing API from Visual Studio Code to provide better testing experience. With the recent release of Visual Studio Code 1.59 as well as our Java Test Runner extension (included in the Java Extension pack), we have made significant improvements to Java testing experience ...
Introducing Microsoft GCToolkit
Microsoft’s Java Engineering Group is excited to announce we have open-sourced the Microsoft GCToolkit on GitHub. GCToolkit is a set of libraries for analyzing Java garbage collection (GC) log files. The toolkit parses GC log files into discrete events and provides an API for aggregating data from those events. This allows the user to create arbitrary and complex analyses of the state of managed memory in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represented by the garbage collection log. In this blog post, I will introduce some of the key features to help you get the most from this project. Managed memory in the Java Vir...
July PSU and General Availability Microsoft Build of OpenJDK for M1 and ARM64
Today we are announcing the July PSU for Java 11 and Java 16 for Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the GA of AArch64 builds, and we are also glad to see the Eclipse Temurin distribution has released its first binaries, including OpenJDK HotSpot for Java 8.
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – June 2021
Hi everyone, welcome to the special mid-year edition for Visual Studio Code Java updates. As the highlight of this post, we are going to take a look at our product roadmap for next few months. We will also showcase some important new features & improvements as we did in previous blog posts. So let us get right into it. July to December 2021 Roadmap Visual Studio Code Java has come a long way since the initial launch, and we couldn't have done it without your support, so thank you for all the suggestions and feedback, and please keep them coming :) As for the next few months (July - December 2021) fo...