That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.

JNBridge is soliciting developers to try out its upcoming Java.VS extension, which enables Java programming within Microsoft's flagship IDE. The Java/.NET bridging specialist said the new extension -- ...

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The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

There are also Visual Studio Code extensions available for Tomcat, Jetty, Docker and Kubernetes. Xiaokai He, senior program manager for Java on Visual Studio Code and Azure at Microsoft, announced the ...