Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Java landscape—including key players and users—is experiencing a significant shift.

The Apache Software Foundation has quit its seat on a key Java standards governing board and in a statement roundly criticized Oracle for refusing to provide a technology compatibility kit for ...

Java is an excellent general-purpose programming language. So, what is wrong with just using Java for everything? Why use any other language? Java is far from slow. It is orders-of-magnitude faster ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a ...

ARM Holdings licenses Sun's technology in a formalization of an existing effort to spread Java to cell phones and other small mobile devices. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Languages such as Python and Rust get a lot of new attention these days, but Java is still going strong after three decades. With Java’s 30th birthday two months away, Scott McNealy, former CEO of ...

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? Among the most ...

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"It's taken Java to where it should have been all along," said Pierre Fricke, director of product management at JBoss. Sun Microsystems released Java EE 5 last month at its JavaOne conference. "I ...