This post launches a four-part series introducing you to Java SE 6's support for Web services. Later in the series we'll build SOAP-based and RESTful-based Web services and explore advanced Web ...

“Java SE 6 is an extremely significant release for us,” said Jean Elliott, Sun’s senior director of Java platform product marketing. She drew particular attention to community participation ...

Apple recently released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 (which adds Java SE 6 to your Mac) after receiving much criticism for omitting it when Leopard shipped:Discussion threads began to appear in ...

Oracle has extended by four months the end-of-life (EOL) time for Java Development Kit 6 to November 2012, the company said in a blog post this week.

As for OpenJDK, Apple says that it plans to contribute most of the components required to properly implement Java SE 7 in Mac OS X. That includes "a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual ...