The next edition of Java has been approved by a Java Community Process executive committee, but not without some acrimony. Java Platform, SE (Standard Edition) 7 has been passed this week by the JCP ...

Official specifications for upcoming releases of Java have been approved by an executive committee of the JCP (Java Committee Process), although the votes were not unanimous. JSR (Java Specification ...

Apple has announced that, along with Oracle, it is kicking off the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. As part of the partnership, Apple's software engineers "will contribute most of the key components, ...

I just hope that the updates can still be rolled into Software Update and we don't have to have an "Updater Daemon" running in the background to check for updates. More broadly, I'd love to see the ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

If you've been watching the Java SE 7 release news, you know about the bug reported by the Apache Lucene community last week. The long-awaited release of a new version of standard Java apparently ...

According to Oracle's Senior Principal Product Manager, Shaun Smith, Java is expanding its cloud presence in a variety of ways, with the most noteworthy of them being the introduction of the Java SE ...

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 versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

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