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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2022

Nick Zhu January 20, 2022 Jan 20, 2022 01/20/22

Hi everyone, welcome to the January edition of Visual Studio Code Java update! Since this is our first blog post of the new year, we are going to look back on highlights of 2021 and take a look at our roadmap for 2022! We also have some exciting feature updates so let us get started. Highlights of 2021 2021 was a productive year for Java on ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – November 2021

Nick Zhu December 15, 2021 Dec 15, 2021 12/15/21

Hi everyone, welcome to the November edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update! In this end-of-year post, we are going to look at several new improvements related to fundamental Java development experience as well as our updates related to encoding issues. Inner-loop dev experience directly impacts developer's day-to-day productivity ...

Say goodbye to “.project” files in Language Support for Java™ 1.1.0

Nick Zhu December 4, 2021 Dec 4, 2021 12/4/21

Recent 1.1.0 release of Language Support for Java™ 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

Nick Zhu November 24, 2021 Nov 24, 2021 11/24/21

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 ...

Microsoft Deepens Its Investments in Java

Bruno Borges November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21

Today we are excited to announce Microsoft has officially joined the Java Community Process. Along with that, we have also provided updates to Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, enhancements to Java support on Visual Studio Code and GitHub, and more details on Azure's rollout of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – September 2021

Nick Zhu October 29, 2021 Oct 29, 2021 10/29/21

Hi everyone, welcome to the September edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update! In this post, we are going cover the new release of Gradle extension, more convenient Code Actions and recent 1.0 language server release. Language Server for Java™ 1.0 Release The 1.0 release of the Language Server for Java™ was officially released ...

Spot every Spring Boot application issue on the spot using AppDynamics!

Asir Selvasingh October 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 10/25/21

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 ...

Announcing the 1.0 release of Language Support for Java™ on Visual Studio Code

Nick Zhu October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

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 ...

Gradle – Deploy Java web apps to Azure in one step!

Yuchen Wang September 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021 09/22/21

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

Nick Zhu September 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021 09/15/21

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 ...

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