Weekly news, updates and insights for Java development with Microsoft tools, Azure services, and OpenJDK. Follow us on @JavaAtMicrosoft.
March 19, 2018Mar 19, 201803/19/18After supporting the widely adopted JUnit 4 with the Java Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code, we’ve received suggestions to add additional test frameworks, like JUnit 5 and TestNG. We’ve added initial support for JUnit 5, including running, debugging test cases as well as test report.
February 2, 2018Feb 2, 201802/2/18Hot code replacement (HCR), which doesn’t require a restart, is a fast debugging technique in which the Java debugger transmits new class files over the debugging channel to another JVM. With this new feature in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), you can start a debugging session and change a Java file in your development environment,
January 11, 2018Jan 11, 201801/11/18Alongside the release of Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner this week, we’re welcoming a few new members to our Visual Studio Code Java Extension family. We think you’ll find them helpful for your Java development when you’re dealing with maven,
January 8, 2018Jan 8, 201801/8/18Happy new year! We’d like to thank you all for using Visual Studio Code for your Java development as well as for sharing your feedback. Within just three months, we’ve published 5 releases for our Debugger for Java extension for Visual Studio Code and received 400K+ downloads.
December 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17Today, 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.
Recognize JUnit4 tests
Run test
Debug test
View test status and run summary
Same as the Debugger for Java,
November 10, 2017Nov 10, 201711/10/17In 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,
October 23, 2017Oct 23, 201710/23/17Since 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,
Cloud
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20Explore the newest features on diagnostics and guidance for CI/CD of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully managed service jointly built and operated by Microsoft and Pivotal.
December 8, 2019Dec 8, 201912/8/19Microsoft and Oracle announce the availability of four Azure Marketplace offers enabling Bring-Your-Own-License style WebLogic Server on Azure IaaS.
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19It’s been a fantastic year for Java developers. With the increased number of companies supporting the Java platform and providing distributions of OpenJDK, makes the Java ecosystem even stronger and enables customers to further their investments into Java applications.
More recently Microsoft acquired jClarity to help form the Java Platform team,
October 29, 2019Oct 29, 201910/29/19Introduce 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).
May 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18Eclipse Jetty is a popular web server and servlet container in Java community. We’ve released a new Jetty extension for Visual Studio Code that makes it easy to run and deploy WAR packages (Web Application aRchive), operate your Jetty servers, and interact with your application from within the editor.
January 8, 2018Jan 8, 201801/8/18Happy new year! We’d like to thank you all for using Visual Studio Code for your Java development as well as for sharing your feedback. Within just three months, we’ve published 5 releases for our Debugger for Java extension for Visual Studio Code and received 400K+ downloads.
December 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17Today, 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.
Recognize JUnit4 tests
Run test
Debug test
View test status and run summary
Same as the Debugger for Java,
Desktop
October 29, 2019Oct 29, 201910/29/19Introduce 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).
December 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18We're proud to announce an update to the Java Extension Pack, including new Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, Java Test Runner and Java Dependency Viewer.
Java
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20In this update, we will show you the performance improvements just released as well as currently under development. You will see Syntax Mode, the newly polished experience for standalone Java files. We'd also like to introduce you to the newly released SonarLint extension which helps you detect code quality and security issues on the fly.
March 10, 2020Mar 10, 202003/10/20How to address the Ghostcat vulnerability on Azure
February 19, 2020Feb 19, 202002/19/20In this update for Java on VS Code, we will show you the new ways to manage your dependencies and configure your multiple JDK. We will also show you the additional tools you can use with popular frameworks and runtimes such as Spring Boot and Quarkus. There're also a few new code actions and improvements to checkout.
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20Explore the newest features on diagnostics and guidance for CI/CD of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully managed service jointly built and operated by Microsoft and Pivotal.
January 6, 2020Jan 6, 202001/6/20In this update for Java on VS Code, we're introducing the long-waited "Call Hierarchy" support along with some Visual Studio Code UI updates which will benefit Java developers a lot. At the same time, new features are also introduced to Debugger and Test Runner. We will also share some other improvements including performance in this post.
November 15, 2019Nov 15, 201911/15/19Welcome to the November update of Java on Visual Studio Code. In this update, we'd like to share some improvements we've made for code editing experience, more code actions, Java 13 support for Gradle projects and new features in Test Runner and Checkstyle extensions.
January 11, 2018Jan 11, 201801/11/18Alongside the release of Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner this week, we’re welcoming a few new members to our Visual Studio Code Java Extension family. We think you’ll find them helpful for your Java development when you’re dealing with maven,
Open Source
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20Explore the newest features on diagnostics and guidance for CI/CD of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully managed service jointly built and operated by Microsoft and Pivotal.
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19It’s been a fantastic year for Java developers. With the increased number of companies supporting the Java platform and providing distributions of OpenJDK, makes the Java ecosystem even stronger and enables customers to further their investments into Java applications.
More recently Microsoft acquired jClarity to help form the Java Platform team,
October 29, 2019Oct 29, 201910/29/19Introduce 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).
September 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Welcome 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 rename after extract to variable/constant/method
After performing extract to variable/constant/method refactoring,
May 1, 2019May 1, 201905/1/19Welcome 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.
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We’d like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including
Dependency auto-completion and more Maven updates
Performance improvements
Standalone file supports
Multiple source folders support
Easy launch for multi-main-class projects
Hide temporary files
Bulk generate getters and setters
Test configuration and report update
Including IntelliCode to Java Extension Pack
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
December 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17Today, 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.
Recognize JUnit4 tests
Run test
Debug test
View test status and run summary
Same as the Debugger for Java,
November 10, 2017Nov 10, 201711/10/17In 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,
October 23, 2017Oct 23, 201710/23/17Since 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,
Visual Studio Code
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Welcome to the October update of Java on Visual Studio Code! This month, we're bringing some new features for code navigation, code actions and refactoring, code snippet along with Java 13 support. There's also improvements in debugger, maven, checkstyle and Test Runner.
September 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Welcome 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 rename after extract to variable/constant/method
After performing extract to variable/constant/method refactoring,
June 24, 2019Jun 24, 201906/24/19Welcome to the June update of Java on Visual Studio Code!
Earlier this month, we shared our new Java Installer for Visual Studio Code, which aims to help new Java developers to get their environment ready and start coding in just a few clicks.
June 14, 2019Jun 14, 201906/14/19It’s been almost 3 years since the first Java language server was developed during a hackathon in a small conference room at Microsoft’s Zurich office with people from Red Hat, IBM, Codenvy and Microsoft, which later became one of the most popular extensions for Visual Studio Code with more than 2.7 million installations.
May 1, 2019May 1, 201905/1/19Welcome 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.
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We’d like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including
Dependency auto-completion and more Maven updates
Performance improvements
Standalone file supports
Multiple source folders support
Easy launch for multi-main-class projects
Hide temporary files
Bulk generate getters and setters
Test configuration and report update
Including IntelliCode to Java Extension Pack
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
December 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18We're proud to announce an update to the Java Extension Pack, including new Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, Java Test Runner and Java Dependency Viewer.
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like AI-assisted IntelliSense and statement completion, code formatting, and style rule inference. During SpringOne 2018, we announced that we will bring those productivity boosters to Java developers and now we’re happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java in the IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio Code.
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like contextual IntelliSense, code formatting and style rule inference. We are happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java with IntelliCode Extension for VS Code.
Web
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20Explore the newest features on diagnostics and guidance for CI/CD of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully managed service jointly built and operated by Microsoft and Pivotal.
May 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18Eclipse Jetty is a popular web server and servlet container in Java community. We’ve released a new Jetty extension for Visual Studio Code that makes it easy to run and deploy WAR packages (Web Application aRchive), operate your Jetty servers, and interact with your application from within the editor.
