Sun has released a beta version of the next release of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), a set of specifications used for creating desktop applications and which also form the basis of Java development ...

Sun Microsystems is seeking to revamp the way in which security is executed in Java and wants developers to try to break the new paradigm to gauge its effectiveness. An initiative called “Crack the ...

Oracle has announced Java 8, which company officials describe as the largest upgrade to the programming model since Java was introduced in 1996. Java is broadly used on a wide range of systems from ...

Java SE 6, the result of two years of development between Sun and 330 outside developers, has been optimized for building Web 2.0 applications and services. The platform includes a Web services client ...

JRuby 1.5, an upgrade to the Ruby language variant that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, will be made available Wednesday, featuring better accommodations for Java and build tools and improved ...

The MicroProfile Working Group, the open forum that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture, just released their latest iteration, MicroProfile 7.1. After ten months of development, ...

OpenJDK plan would improve support for archived Java heap objects in class data sharing, aligning with the Project Leyden effort to improve startup performance. Efforts to improve Java program startup ...

JetBrains is shipping version 9 of its IntelliJ Idea IDE for Java, this time offering both commercial and open source versions. The commercial edition, called Ultimate, features a set of tools and ...

Oracle has announced plans for an AI-powered service to help developers rapidly program apps based on Java, SQL and the Oracle Cloud infrastructure. When released, Oracle Code Assist will join a small ...