Sun allies complete a second version of Java software for cell phones that they hope will fill gaps left by the first, but many see challenges in moving to the new technology. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Java is too verbose. Even the biggest advocates of the Java language are willing to acquiesce to that point. And any enterprise software developer who has dabbled in any peripheral languages, such as ...

Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for cellphones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the new ...

Oracle pledged to fix the issues in Java and to improve how it communicates with users. "No amount of talking or smoothing over is going to make anybody happy. We have to fix Java," Smith said on the ...

Sun Microsystems will chant an ease-of-use mantra at its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week as it tries to drive the Java language and platform into the hands of a broader range ...

Java on mobile platforms is not living up to the promise of letting programmers "write once, run anywhere", according to developers gathered in London last week. The Java programming language was ...

In announcement today at the annual JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems has announced that the Java Development Kit (JDK) is now ready for liberation. Sun has been working towards releasing all of ...

Oracle says Java EE 8 will be equipped for cloud deployments, microservices, containers, and multitenancy, but Java advocates want to see the fine print Oracle’s recently revealed plan to reboot ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

Security issues have long bedeviled users of Oracle’s Java SE, and on Monday the FTC’s efforts to address the problem finally came to fruition. Oracle has agreed to settle charges that it deceived ...