Many Java developers today use scripting languages for most of their work on the Java platform, only relying on the Java libraries for features not supported by their scripting language of choice.

Red Hat's Mark Little, for years a tireless proponent of the Java platform (Java Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition) as the foundation for service oriented architecture, has lately been ...

The Java Platform burden. But as we all know, with the acquisition of Sun, Oracle became the stewards of the Java Platform. At the time, Oracle brass played to the Java community well by talking up ...

Sun's open source Java move gets mixed reviews Two years later, availability is up, but Sun remains in charge of its future ...

While Macintosh users are enthusiastically putting the new version of OS X through its paces, one problem has cropped up early: problems with Java and Adobe Flash.

First, why is Java cross-platform? Let's dig into the history of the language first. Sun Microsystems, the inventor of Java, was a popular vendor in the computer workstation market in the 1990s. As ...

A group of 10 Java companies forms to lobby for greater awareness of tools in Java standards. Notably absent are Java tools heavyweights IBM and Borland.

RIM has confirmed that its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be able to run third-party Android applications and BlackBerry Java applications. The move will open up the PlayBook to a ...

DotCloud is a new Y Combinator-funded company launching today that's similar to these, but with a key difference: instead of focusing on one or two popular development stacks, it wants to give ...

Considering that we've already seen Sun parade its iPhone-like Java Mobile FX platform around, it's not too surprising to hear that Samsung and Sun Microsystems could be teaming up to "jointly ...