Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java?

When Sun opened the Java technology and released the programming language under the terms of GNU's General Public License (GPL), it added a special exception to the license to ensure that ...

When people ask me why I prefer IntelliJ IDEA for Java development, my answer usually comes down to one thing: it feels like ...

Twenty years is a pretty significant milestone, especially if you're a programming language. At JavaOne 2015, everyone is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Java programming language, and looking ...

Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

The tech giant plans to build ties between the different flavors of Java in a bid to present the programming technology as more unified.

Sun Microsystems formalized its efforts to drive Java technology into consumer and embedded applications with the formation of the Java Consumer Business Alliance Program. This program aims to ...

Oracle’s silence about Java EE has brought developer community distrust to a fever pitch.

Apple just announced that it is joining Oracle's OpenJDK project to open source the Java technology for Mac OS X. OpenJDK is a free and open source implementation of the Java programming language ...

Terracotta at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next week will herald its clustering technology for Java systems. The Terracotta Virtualization Server clusters applications onto multiple ...

Alexander Belokrylov is CEO of BellSoft. Accomplished expert in Java technology and IT leadership with over 10 years of experience. Software applications are today's basic operations layer for any ...