Dec. 7, Sound Board at MotorCity Casino, Detroit, featuring Peabo Bryson, Sheena Easton, Ruden Studdard and Ilya Serov, ticket prices vary. • Carpenter’s Christmas starring Helen Welch: Dec. 20, ...

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.

The Java virtual machine (JVM) is a program whose sole purpose is to execute other programs. This simple idea has made Java one of the most successful and long-lived platforms of all time.