Sun allies complete a second version of Java software for cell phones that they hope will fill gaps left by the first, but many see challenges in moving to the new technology. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for cell phones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the new ...

The database giant will "get Java fixed up" to improve security, Milton Smith, Java security lead at Oracle, said during a conference call with Java User Group leaders last week. The conference call ...

At the EclipseCon conference, Mark Reinhold, Java platform chief architect at Oracle, laid out the roadmap for Java 9, which could mean better modularity and new value types. Improved modularity could ...

Java on mobile platforms is not living up to the promise of letting programmers "write once, run anywhere", according to developers gathered in London last week. The Java programming language was ...

hopes were high -- at least in some circles -- that it would bring profound changes. For programmers, it was supposed to take a fair bit of the pain out of the process of software development. And for ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

Sun Microsystems will chant an ease-of-use mantra at its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week as it tries to drive the Java language and platform into the hands of a broader range ...

Java is too verbose. Even the biggest advocates of the Java language are willing to acquiesce to that point. And any enterprise software developer who has dabbled in any peripheral languages, such as ...

Oracle says Java EE 8 will be equipped for cloud deployments, microservices, containers, and multitenancy, but Java advocates want to see the fine print Oracle’s recently revealed plan to reboot ...