Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the Java platform’s enduring strengths has always been its ecosystem. Since the early ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

VARBusiness:How has your original vision for Java changed or evolved over the years? Any big surprises? A: The thing that's hard about that question is that there are just so many interesting things.

Early on, Java security focused on resisting executable content threats — security risks caused by malicious or poorly programmed code. In this series’s previous articles, we saw how Java security ...

Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist, Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun objected to joining Eclipse on grounds that it would be required to transition to Eclipse. IBM claims there’s no such requirement.