Oracle Corp. grabbed headlines last week with a post on The Aquarium blog, in which the steward of Java proposed moving Java EE to an open source foundation, such as the Eclipse Foundation or the ...

Foundation classes are just what the name says, the very foundation on which information technology (IT) professionals are creating their next generation of enterprises to run business systems.

AWT: Abstract Windowing Toolkit, the part of Java that gives programmers the language’s graphical user interface (GUI). CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture, a standard for communicating ...

Oracle has moved to further open up the enterprise Java platform by transitioning Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. Within a month of beginning to talk about further open-sourcing Java, Oracle has ...