| Inside Java February 2026 |
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JavaOne 2026 is only a few weeks away. The conference features key sponsors like JetBrains, Microsoft, and NVIDIA; an immersive line-up of enriching learning content; and VIP access to Oracle's Java team and industry recognized luminaries.
And we're offering a special discount for $150 off!
The “who’s who of Java” will be at JavaOne 2026. — Marit van Dijk, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains. |
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| JavaOne: Save $150 Now! |
| March 17-19, Redwood Shores, California |
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Register now! Get a $150 discount!
This offer is available for a limited time and is valid for new individual registrations only and cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. Not valid on group passes or for public sector attendees.
Use this code at checkout: J1NEWS150
Check out the JavaOne keynotes and sessions. We'll also have hands-on labs, deep dives into the latest in JVM development, Java in AI, enterprise Java, machine learning, tooling, application development, and community. If you've never been to JavaOne, check out JavaOne 2025 (videos, photos) and JavaOne 2022 (videos, photos).
JavaOne is the only Java developer conference in the world that draws the highest percentage of engineers from the Java Platform Group — the team that builds Java at Oracle.
If you are attending, speaking, or sponsoring then please subscribe here to get the latest JavaOne 2026 news. And we'll see you in California! |
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Oracle is excited to welcome NVIDIA as a Diamond sponsor at JavaOne!
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing.
The company's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI, and is fueling the creation of the metaverse.
NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. |
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| HeroDevs Sponsors JavaOne |
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The Oracle team would like to welcome HeroDevs as a new sponsor for JavaOne!
HeroDevs provides Never-Ending Support for end-of-life open source software, keeping applications secure and compliant without forced migrations from legacy versions of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Java EE, Apache Struts, and many others.
Includes free EOL dependency detection for your tech stack. |
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| Learning Java |
| Photo: Piper Fleming at JavaOne 2025 |
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Crystal Sheldon from Java Developer Relations attended the SIGCSE conference to tap into the ideas and research across CS education.
The conference took place in St. Louis this year and always brings together CS educators and researchers across high school and higher education. Many of the sessions covered AI and how to effectively teach and integrate AI into the classroom.
They also explored how students need to be ready to use AI in the workforce. As you can imagine it's quite a balancing act to ensure students are using AI effectively while learning concepts necessary to innovate.
Check this video from our Oracle Interns on how they manage using AI in their schooling as well as in their work. See Learn.java. |
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The Inside.java website aggregates technical content from engineers in the Java Platform Group and developer advocates from Java Developer Relations.
We publish articles, videos, podcasts, and more. Here's a sample of the latest content. |
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| Now over 5 million downloads! |
| Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code |
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The Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code from Oracle brings full-featured development support (edit-compile-debug & test cycle).
It also offers support for Maven and Gradle projects. Applications using JDK 8 and above are supported. |
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The Inside Java Podcast is a program for Java developers brought to you directly by the people that make Java at Oracle, hosted by engineers on the Java Developer Relations team.
We discuss the language, the JVM, OpenJDK, platform security, innovation projects like Loom and Panama, and everything in between! |
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Episode 44 “Java, Collections & Generics, BeJUG”
Nicolai Parlog talks to Adam Bien about scripting with Java, to Maurice Naftalin about the history and tradeoffs of the collections framework and erasure, and to Tom Cools about the innovative way the Belgian Java User Group organizes itself.
Episode 45 “Announcement - The New Inside Java Podcast”
Nicolai Parlog introduces you to the podcast's new structure with two shows under one umbrella: The long-form conversations you know become Ask the Architects episodes and they'll be accompanied by the Inside Java Newscast as a podcast.
Episode 46 “Java's Plans for 2026” [IJN]
In 2026, Java keeps evolving: Project Valhalla is gunning for merging its value types preview in the second half of this year; Babylon wants to incubate code reflection; Loom will probably finalize the structured concurrency API; Leyden plans to ship AOT code compilation; and Amber hopes to present JEPs on constant patterns and pattern assignments. And those are just the most progressed features. More are discussed in this episode of the Inside Java Newscast. |
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| Duke’s Corner Java Podcast |
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Duke's Corner explores the Java community and the technology with interesting developer profiles every month.
Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations hosts the show and below are some recent episodes: |
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Marit van Dijk and Anton Arhipov: 25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA
Jim Grisanzio talks with developer advocates Marit van Dijk and Anton Arhipov from JetBrains about the 25th anniversary of IntelliJ IDEA, the latest features of the IDE, Anton's upcoming session at JavaOne in March, and their perspectives on JavaOne as the premier conference for Java developers.
The “who’s who of Java” will be at JavaOne 2025. — Marit van Dijk
Paul Bakker: Go Build a Lot of Stuff!
Jim Grisanzio talks with Paul Bakker, an engineer and Java architect in California. Paul is a staff software engineer in the Java Platform team at Netflix. He works on improving the Java stack and tooling used by all Netflix microservices and was one of the original authors of the DGS (GraphQL) Framework. He is also a Java Champion, he's published two books about Java modularity, and he's a speaker at conferences and Java User Groups.
“Java is everywhere at Netflix.” — Paul Bakker |
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| Conferences & Java User Groups |
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Aside from JavaOne coming up in March 2026 in California, the Java Developer Relations team will have speakers at these major Java conferences to start the year.
March
Devnexus: Atlanta, March 4-6
Billy Korando will be presenting on Java 26.
JChateau: Paris, March 4-8
José Paumard will be co-organizing the event and presenting on the latest in Java.
IntelliJ IDEA Conf: Online, March 24-26
Ana-Maria Mihalceanu will be presenting on Now and Next Java for AI
April
Voxxed Days Amsterdam: Netherlands, April 1
Ana-Maria Mihalceanu and Lize Raes will be presenting sessions on Secure Java Applications against Quantum Threats and LangChain4j Apps.
JCON Europe: Germany, April 20-23
Sharat Chander will present Java: To Infinity and Beyond.
GIDS: Bangalore, April 21-24
Jim Grisanzio will be presenting on building Java communities.
Devoxx France: Paris, April 22-24
José Paumard will be presenting Développer une Application Asynchrone avec l'API Structured Concurrency.
May
JAlba: Edinburgh, May 14-16
The 7th edition of JAlba is on! From the evening of May 13th, thirty lively, knowledgeable Java enthusiasts will meet in Edinburgh. Attendees will find 27 sessions on Java, the ecosystem, wider technology questions, and everything that interests the community. Everyone will enjoy being in the UK's best place to visit with first-class architecture, superb scenery, and Scotland's history all concentrated into a few hundred meters. And the world's best whisky!
Back in February
In February, Oracle sponsored and sent engineers and executives to present Java sessions at Jfokus in Stockholm: Sharat Chander, Brian Goetz, Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, Per Minborg, Fabio Niephaus, Joakim Nordstrom, Lize Raes, Claes Redestad, Georges Saab, Heather VanCura, and José Paumard.
Also in February, Billy Korando met with the Chicago Java User Group for a session on To Java [n] and Beyond!
More Events
To follow all our conferences, check out the Events page on Dev.java. |
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| Java DevRel Team |
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Ana-Maria Mihalceanu
Billy Korando
Chad Arimura
Crystal Sheldon
David Delabassée
Denis Makogon
Heather Stephens
Jim Grisanzio
José Paumard
Lize Raes
Melissa Jacobus
Nicolai Parlog
Sharat Chander |
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