New features like var, auto-compile, text blocks, record classes, and more are shifting Java in subtle but powerful ways—toward a more flexible, dynamic future.

Java 11 is getting long in the tooth, so many developers are moving to the next oldest version that's still supported, Java 17. Here's what's different.

When you initialize Java arrays with the new keyword, the size argument is of type int. The 32-bit Java int can go to a maximum of 2,147,483,647, so that is the theoretical maximum Java array size.