Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works.

Java 18 introduces a number of other enhancements as well, including the ability to add code snippets within API documentation.

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.