Planned Java-related improvements for VS Code range from smarter code completion and better debugging to deeper integration with Kubernetes and cloud services.

News JavaFX Faces off Against Adobe, Microsoft Sun Microsystems joins Microsoft and Adobe in the RIA race with the launch of its JavaFX runtime, platform and development tools. By Michael Desmond and ...

However, Sun has a leg up in the enterprise. Also, part of Sun's JavaFX package is a new scripting language called JavaFX Script, which is designed to address the difficulty of writing Java code.