Sun Microsystems' decision to make Java SE open source won't make any difference to the majority of Java programmers, according to the company's chief open-source officer. Simon Phipps, speaking at a ...

Sun's decision to dump 1,300 people was expected. Less expected was where they came from. Open source. Included are people who worked on OpenJDK, desktop Java, the Java 2 Standard Edition (JavaSE) ...

Java’s thirtieth birthday arrives amid the clamour surrounding generative AI, a technology already capable of drafting voluminous, enterprise-level code from a single prompt. For newcomers it can seem ...

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.

Java and JavaScript are entirely different languages despite their similar names. Java is compiled and widely used for ...