The company is planning aggressive moves for the critical software platform in the next few years. Here's a rundown. Java, first launched at Sun Microsystems in 1995, remains a critical part of the ...

Java will be 30 years old in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

It was in March 1995 that the industry first caught a glimpse of a programming dialect which was to become "the language, the platform and the architecture for computing on the network". When Sun ...

update Sun Microsystems has confirmed plans to open-source key components of its Java platform by the end of this year. This follows an earlier commitment, pledged at the JavaOne developer conference ...

When high-tech history is inscribed for the ages, 2008 may be remembered as the year Java tipped from a language-centric to a platform-centric technology. Andrew Glover kicks off JavaWorld’s Year in ...

The Java programming language celebrates its silver anniversary this week, with May 23, 2020, marking 25 years from the day Sun Microsystems first introduced Java to the world. The venerable language ...

A patch for a critical Java flaw released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed, security researchers warn. This makes the vulnerability exploitable again, paving the way for ...