Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

Among the highlights emanating from U.S. District Court in San Francisco courtroom 8 today was Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's response to a question regarding the status of the Java programming language, ...

Before running Java on a free JVM, assess the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited and the consequences of an ...

Java has become the most popular attack vector for the bad guys, surpassing Adobe and Windows itself. Kurt Baumgartner, a senior security researcher with Kaspersky Lab, notes that it is always the ...

Frankly, I think most of what Java 8 is planning to do is let the fanboys dump every feature they can think of into the language. I’m not against those features per se, and the JVM itself should ...

Java's a great language to work with, for a lot of reasons. One of the strongest is its ecosystem -- if you need a library to do something, there's a good chance that someone else published a library ...