June 8, 2001— As an object-oriented, network-enabled, platform-spanning language smart enough to include primitive data types for efficiency, Java has always been cool. But it just keeps getting ...

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

Sun’s new JavaFX technology finally makes the Java user experience competitive with modern desktop UIs. Including RuneScape — a 3D game — in the beta program of the Java Store was a smart idea.

4Use OSGi to Make Java a Great Cloud Platform Embrace the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) as the modularity standard and use that to drive Java as a great platform for the cloud.

As Oracle slowly relinquishes more and more control of the Java Platform to the open-source community, one starts to wonder if being stewards of the Java Platform was more of a curse or a blessing.

While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture ...

Here we examine not only the motivation for Java's platform independence, but how the JVM and bytecode make Java's cross-platform capabilities possible.

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) along with industry support from Java technology licensees including Caucho, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat.