Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

At JavaOne, Oracle announced a big initiative to revitalize Java on the desktop, the Web, and mobile devices. Can it follow through? Java has long been a hit with enterprise developers, with Java EE ...

Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (also called 6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client ...

The benefits of using Java alternatives such as Azul might include cost optimisation, higher performance and vulnerability management. Java is one of the world’s most popular programming languages.

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 ...

New pricing plan for Oracle Java SE starts at $15 per employee per month and scales downward based on number of users. Oracle’s 2023 per-employee pricing for standard Java is raising concerns about ...

Oracle is adding its GraalVM compiler technology at no additional cost to the Java SE subscription to help developers build microservices and do cloud-native development on the Java platform. GraalVM ...

Oracle has announced plans for an AI-powered service to help developers rapidly program apps based on Java, SQL and the Oracle Cloud infrastructure. When released, Oracle Code Assist will join a small ...

Sun/Java cup. Photo by igorschwarzmann on Flickr. Some rights reserved What is happening with the Java language and runtime? Since Java passed into the hands of ...

A San Francisco jury has returned verdicts on three of four key questions over copyright issues in the high-profile courtroom trial between Oracle and Google. Neither company won a decisive victory, ...