Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

This is Part One of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part One, I will explore the common ground shared by the Java.next languages. I have chosen four languages which together represent “Java.next ...

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This is Part Three of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Three, I will explore how the Java.next languages (JRuby, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala) support dispatch. For my purposes here, dispatch ...

Given the portability of Java code between the server, desktop, and mobile editions of that platform, one can only guess at the plethora of Salesforce.com-esque applications that Google will deliver ...

At 21 years old, Java is the most popular programming language on Earth. This year’s JavaOne keynote highlighted the way scientists are using “write once, run anywhere” Java code today. Multiple ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems will turn up the heat on Java as the unifying platform for the fragmented world of next-generation wireless systems at its Java-One conference here Monday (March 25).