Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API ...

It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

An executive from Oracle, the company that oversees the Java language, and other industry veterans spelled out what the changes mean to developers at the QCon 2019 London conference.

In the U.S., Java was still a popular nickname for coffee in the late 1990s when the computer programming language was developed, said Georges Saab, the vice president of development for Java at ...