Did you ever wish your Java code could be dynamic like JavaServer Pages? That it could be modified and recompiled at runtime, with your application updating itself on the fly? This article shows ...

This is the Java compiler, and whether you use Maven, Gradle, the SpringSource IDE or Jenkins CI, it's this JDK tool that's used under the covers when Java source code gets compiled. But why does a ...

Compiling Java code to WebAssembly is an efficient way to get it running in a web browser, and you get a serious performance boost. Let's check it out.

For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.

Some developers try and change the Java compiler setting within Eclipse from Java 1.5 to Java 1.8, but that only works temporarily. As soon as a new Maven build takes place, the JDK version reverts ...