While Oracle and Sun Microsystems are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a big boost for Java, others are not so sure. Some with stake in the Java ecosystem are questioning what kind of control ...

My company is putting me in charge of developing something in-house to be used as a reporting front-end to an Oracle database. Basically, they want to be able to go in and choose a report category, ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Java landscape—including key players and users—is experiencing a significant shift.

Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...