The Java ecosystem is growing and evolving—thankfully. And that means better business applications for real-world scenarios, and more opportunities for Java programmers to get involved in everything ...

Big data is becoming mainstream, and streaming is a hot data management tactic. Open source is becoming more inclusive as it attracts both entrepreneurs and a more diverse world of developers. Java is ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of the Java software development platform, AdoptOpenJDK. A ...

Java has the potential to emerge as a dominant language supporting platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and will continue to provide the underlying enterprise runtime for a new generation of dynamic ...

Web services are not just a hype by suppliers looking for new sales; they will take off in 2002, and the majority will be based on Java rather than Microsoft's .Net alternative, according to a poll of ...

This past week featured some significant news for the general Java development community. Many of us looked to this week’s OpenWorld 2009 as an opportunity to learn more about the potential future of ...

Think of Java, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, and your first thoughts most likely go to the language itself. But underneath the language is a piece of technology that has a legacy at ...

What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of true progress? You could follow the same path that Steve Goldsmith, ...

A recent blog post by FoxGlove Security that described remotely executable exploits against several major middleware products including WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss has focused attention on what ...