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Join Microsoft at SpringOne 2021

August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21

Nate Ceres

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 – May 2021

June 15, 2021 Jun 15, 2021 06/15/21

Yaojin Yang

Welcome to May’s updates on VS Code for Java. In this edition, we will share with you Java Formatter Settings Editor, generating tests from source file, debugging enhancement and Jupyter Notebook for Java.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2021

May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

Yaojin Yang

Welcome to VS Code update for Java. Another busy and productive month. Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner extensions got new features.

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...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2021

April 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021 04/20/21

Yaojin Yang

It’s blogging time again. Welcome to VS Code update for Java. In the last couple of months, our engineers have been working on a few very important things. Now, it’s time to uncover. Let’s start.

Microsoft JFR Streaming Library for Java Flight Recorder

April 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021 04/12/21

David Grieve

Today we are happy to share the first release of our JFR Streaming library. With this library, developers can easily manage Java Flight Recordings programmatically. It includes commonly expected features such as starting and stopping a flight recording on a local or remote JVM and reading the recorded file as an InputStream. Azure ...

Announcing Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

April 6, 2021 Apr 6, 2021 04/6/21

Bruno Borges

Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2021

March 14, 2021 Mar 14, 2021 03/14/21

Yaojin Yang

Welcome to the February edition of VS Code update for Java. Spring is approaching. It’s a season for refreshing, no exception to VS Code. In this edition, we will present you with our experiment of a new Welcome Page and re-designed icons. We hope you like the new looking and more importantly, enjoy the upcoming Spring season.

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 ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2021

February 8, 2021 Feb 8, 2021 02/8/21

Yaojin Yang

Welcome to the first edition of VS Code update for Java in 2021. We got some questions around how to run tests on VS Code, so in this blog we will walk you through the how. Meanwhile, we will share the news of releasing Azure Spring Cloud extension. The extension is for you to create, manage and deploy apps to Azure Spring Cloud service.

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