The Java language and platform continues to be the backbone of many enterprise applications, and yet businesses are only scratching the surface of its cost-saving potential. That's the conclusion of a ...

Java will be 30 years old in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

Java is an excellent general-purpose programming language. So, what is wrong with just using Java for everything? Why use any other language? Java is far from slow. It is orders-of-magnitude faster ...

The .NET ecosystem is affected by a similar flaw that has wreaked havoc among Java apps and developers in 2016. The flaw is in how .NET coding libraries handle deserialization operations, leading to ...

Yesterday, I published a pair of posts that connect the dots between the recent Novell/Microsoft pact and Sun's plans to open source Java. I've been following the comments that ZDNet's readers have ...

In Chicago, it’s the Cubs or the White Sox. In underwear, it’s boxers or briefs. In Web services platforms, it’s Java or Microsoft Windows. When Microsoft launched its .Net program, the personal ...

Headlines about Adobe Flash zero-day exploits and calls for the execution of Adobe Flash dominated headlines over the past week or so in the wake of the Hacking Team hack. Meanwhile, Oracle pushed out ...

When high-tech history is inscribed for the ages, 2008 may be remembered as the year Java tipped from a language-centric to a platform-centric technology. Andrew Glover kicks off JavaWorld’s Year in ...