Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

‘Having to license your entire employee count is not reasonable because you could have 10,000 employees, maybe only 500 of them need Java. And maybe you only have a couple of servers for a couple of ...

With new JDK releases scheduled to arrive every six months, organizations will quickly find themselves two or three versions behind the latest build. For example, any organization that upgraded to ...

The drive towards newer Java versions and updated enterprise specifications isn’t just about keeping up with the latest tech; ...

There are some ways to get rid of older Java versions, but there's no easy path to doing so Users of Java are caught between a rock and a hard place. They often need an older version of Java to run ...

Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Java has a pretty impressive track record in terms of supported platforms. Available on everything from flip phones to DVD players, not to mention computers, ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

Programming language Python is now firmly the second most popular programming language, for the first time knocking Java out of the top two places in RedMonk's language popularity rankings. It's the ...