Acquiring the Java platform wasn't a top priority when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. There were plenty of ways for Oracle to completely ignore the Java Platform and still justify Sun's $7.4 ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group has released Jakarta EE 11, the latest version of its enterprise Java platform, marking a significant step in modernizing enterprise Java development ...

As part of the transaction, Azul’s existing investors Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital will be reinvesting significant new capital and retain minority stakes alongside Azul’s employees.

Even most non-techies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle. In a nutshell, ...

The entire Java development and execution environment from Oracle. Originally developed by Sun, which Oracle acquired in 2010, Java programs are executed by a runtime engine (the Java Virtual Machine) ...

Open-source Java development tools and runtimes provider Azul has announced plans to unite its commercial products into a single "Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise." Called the Azul ...

Sun's new software store is an idea whose time has come, and one that sends Java hurtling head-to-head with Windows It’s not enough to offer developers platforms upon which to build applications.

In a development that could shake up the software industry, Sun is releasing the Java programming language under the General Public License (GPL). Both Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), which is ...

The module system introduced in Java 9 makes it easier to organize your code. Here’s a brief guide to working with modules in Java Until Java 9, Java’s top-level code organization element had been the ...