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SAN FRANCISCO--Not to be outdone, while Oracle is hosting its annual Java developer festival, Microsoft released a Java-based preview of its serverless computing offering, Azure Functions. According ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java. Fittingly, the company ...

Microsoft has announced the private preview of jaz, a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) launcher tailored for cloud deployments on Azure. The tool aims to address long-standing challenges developers face ...

Microsoft has been touting for a while the ability for developers to use a variety of tools, like Java, PHP, Ruby and Eclipse, when developing applications for Windows Azure. But the company is going ...

A new "getting started" experience for Java on Azure dev tooling promises to have IntelliJ jockeys up and running with their first deployment within a few minutes. Microsoft's dev team for the Azure ...

It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...

Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java helps Eclipse users build and configure deployment packages of their Java apps for Azure Microsoft is improving accommodations for Java developers on the ...

Microsoft wants to empower its customers to lift and shift their Java and Spring workloads to Azure, while also helping them to modernize their application stack with best-in-class enterprise ...