If you look at people's experience with JavaScript (a language for advanced Web pages that's not related to Java). There are interoperability issues there between all the different flavors of ...

The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

When the venerable Metal look and feel for Swing first debuted, its main aesthetic competition was the Windows 95 interface. Given the state of graphical user interfaces a decade ago, Metal was an ...

Everything in Java is an object, except primitives like int. Turns out that small caveat has big implications for the language, which have compounded over the years. This seemingly minor design ...

I've been recently playing around with Java as I'm planning on doing a project that needs to be cross platform even though it will be developed on a Mac. Now it's been a couple of years since I've ...

A look at some of the best integrated development environments (IDEs) and code editors for Java software developers. Learn more. Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using ...

Meeting at Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara, Calif., campus last month, members of the JCP,the group of vendors that create standard Java technologies,said the process of finalizing Java standards often ...