Several leading Java tool vendors are building an organization to link their respective frameworks in an effort to offer an alternative to Microsoft Corp.s .Net framework and Visual Studio tools. The ...

A closely watched feud over Java standards moves closer to resolution, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The voice was like a voice of doom. It was the voice of Dr. Hubertus Johannes van Mook, Lieutenant Governor General of The Netherlands East Indies: It is not that dozens of battleships, scores of ...

Behind such programs and more is the very technology at the center of an intense battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over control of desktop computers. Though Sun has mostly lost that fight, ...

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech landscape, developers are increasingly faced with the task of selecting which programming languages are the most beneficial and effective in ...

While organizers of the JavaOne conference seem oblivious, there’s a crescendo of complaints and near-universal agreement among security researchers that the Java Runtime Environment is full of holes, ...

Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft. A browser ...