With its 2.2.2 Java Card release, Sun Microsystems has added contactless capabilities and biometrics support for smart card chip manufacturers and smart card vendors. The Cardtech announcement came ...

The FreeBSD Foundation has released a binary distribution of the Java Development Kit for its Unix-based operating system, FreeBSD, marking the first time the operating system has sported native Java ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program. The ...

Oracle has added some serious Internet of Things (IoT) muscle to a widely deployed technology we haven't heard much about recently with the release today of Java Card 3.1. New features in this release ...

One and a half years after Apple announced the depreciation of its edition of Java for the Mac platform, Oracle has announced the availability of its own Java Development Kit and JavaFX Software ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. Sun announced the worldwide availability and deployment of contactless ...