The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Enterprise Java platform Azul Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of Payara Services Ltd., a global enterprise-grade provider of Java applications and microservices, to expand the company’s ...

Despite advances in cloud computing, mobile development, and AI, the day-to-day business of enterprises around the world still runs on three programming languages that made their debut in the 1990s.

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday is broadening its Java Enterprise System network services software package, releasing middleware suites tailored to functions such as service-oriented architectures and ...

The central tendencies we currently see in the tech industry are related to the continuous expansion of cloud computing and the rapid adoption of AI. For Java development, these trends are also ...

Some Internet appliance and embedded device developers have concluded that current implementations of the Java specifications are either functionally incomplete for their use, too slow, too unreliable ...