"I would love to tinker with the Java language, but that’s not where I feel the pain now," said Java creator James Gosling during an early morning JavaOne session. He, along with Tim Bray, John Fowler ...

The tug-o-war of software development languages gets really confusing; it’s hard to decide what language would prevail and become the new standard in application development. Why is it important?

Java is too verbose. Even the biggest advocates of the Java language are willing to acquiesce to that point. And any enterprise software developer who has dabbled in any peripheral languages, such as ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- When Java applets were the only cross-platform choice to add dynamic content to a webpage, companies quickly adopted the technology. When Flash players and JavaScript engines emerged ...

Red Hat on Monday announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy, an approach that the company says will redefine the use of Java in the enterprise by making it easier to develop and ...

Forrester analysts assert Oracle's plans for Java limit the language to the enterprise at expense of wider development community Oracle is limiting the development of Java by focusing the future ...