The first big open-source-related stink has emerged in the wake of the Oracle-Sun merger … and it involves MySQL, and the possible forking thereof by the original developers. The Java community has ...

Existing Oracle Java SE licensees may continue with their per-processor or per-user plans, and do not have to move to the new per-employee subscription, Oracle says. Current Oracle Java SE licensees ...

The Java landscape—including key players and users—is experiencing a significant shift. Oracle Java has been the most popular way to run enterprise Java applications and workloads for years. However, ...

Update: A few days after this article’s publication, Oracle issued a statement to Ars saying that the company remains committed to Java EE development. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oracle ...

The latest State of Java report from Azul Systems shows that the 30-year-old programming language has moved with the times and is being used for advanced applications like adding artificial ...

Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past. “The new Java SE ...

For a language that turned 30 last year, Java has a stubborn habit of refusing the obituary. At JavaOne 2026, Oracle’s message was not that Java needs reinvention so much as repositioning. The ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...