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Oracle has chosen the Eclipse Foundation to be the new home of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE).
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"Big things are still coming," Saab said. "They'll just be coming in smaller pieces."
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By John K. Waters
Java exec Mark Reinhold proposes a strict, time-based release schedule for the Java SE Platform and the JDK that provides a feature release every six months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term support release every three years.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle's proposal to move Java EE to an open source foundation drew mostly positive reactions from the enterprise Java community.
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By John K. Waters
The API is designed to make it easy to set and manage environment configurations for enterprise Java microservices.
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By John K. Waters
Company considering move "to make it more agile and responsive to changing industry and technology demands."
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By John K. Waters
Jtest Unit Testing Assistant for Java is designed to help developers with the creation, assessment, and enhancement of unit tests.
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By John K. Waters
The new versions of Azul's open source development and runtime platform for server-side Java applications are designed for the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Server Processor.
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By John K. Waters
Java earned an "all-time low score" in the latest TIOBE Programming Community Index, along with C, and yet the two programming languages retained the top two spots, ranking first and second, respectively.
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By John K. Waters
This release is a major revision of the core framework, the most comprehensive update since version 4.3.
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By John K. Waters
Not surprisingly, support for the upcoming release of Java 9 is a focus in this version of the IDE -- specifically, support for the Java Platform Module System specification, better known as Jigsaw.
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By John K. Waters
"The attack vector of the Java platform is huge," says Waratek security architect. "More and more vulnerabilities are discovered that affect both the legacy and newer versions."
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Google yesterday promised the next version of its flagship Android mobile OS -- nicknamed Android O for now -- is "coming soon" as it announced the release of its final Developer Preview 4.
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In a steady climb over the past three years, it now tops C, Java, C++ and C#.
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"We're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio," says director of product management for Android. "We're so glad we did this."
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By John K. Waters
Some industry watchers have said the Java Platform Module System specification, better known as Jigsaw, will effectively transform Java into a new language.
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By John K. Waters
This year's coordinated release includes 83 open source projects comprising approximately 2 million net new lines of code (for a total of 71 million) from 287 committers and 664 contributors.
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By John K. Waters
SmartBear, a provider of software quality tools, is the latest company to join the Eclipse MicroProfile Project, an effort to create a baseline platform definition that optimizes enterprise Java for microservices architecture.
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Amazon Web Services is soliciting developer feedback for its updated Java SDK, built on Java 8, with new features and API changes.
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By John K. Waters
Lightbend and IBM are teaming up to develop a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers building and deploying AI and cognitive applications in on-premises and cloud environments, the two companies announced today.
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By John K. Waters
It's about fixing "showstopper" bugs and building momentum toward the Final Release Candidate milestone, currently scheduled for July 6.
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By John K. Waters
IBM's new Microservices Builder tool is billed as a "complete user experience for creating, testing and deploying applications built with microservices."
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By John K. Waters
In the latest Programming Language Rankings from the industry watchers at RedMonk, Kotlin, a language that didn't make the Top 20, was given special attention in its discussion section.
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By John K. Waters
In-memory data grid specialist Hazelcast Inc. announced the release of an updated version of its relatively new distributed processing engine for Big Data streams.
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By John K. Waters
Although he wants to continue pushing for a June 22 Release Candidate build, Mark Reinhold has announced a Sept. 1 General Availability release for the JDK 9 project -- eight weeks past the previously scheduled July 27 GA release.