Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

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There are some ways to get rid of older Java versions, but there's no easy path to doing so Users of Java are caught between a rock and a hard place. They often need an older version of Java to run ...