Java 9 could introduce modularity and new value types. Improved modularity could reduce app size and improve startup performance. New value types will make it easier to program arrays.

Announced earlier this month, the new Java holds the promise of simpler cell phone programming, richer games, more money for cell phone service providers and software that connects to Internet ...

Find out how Java provides a promising alternative for coding data science applications that may make it easier to develop more scalable AI.

Java on mobile platforms is not living up to the promise of letting programmers "write once, run anywhere", according to developers gathered in London last week. The Java programming language was ...

Oracle's Java Chief Promises to "Fix" Java The database giant will "get Java fixed up" to improve security, Milton Smith, Java security lead at Oracle, said during a conference call with Java User ...

I tested ThinkFree's promise of bidirectional compatibility with a series of routine files, and it seemed to work fine.

Work is being wrapped up on the first draft of a set of new Java technologies that could bring big benefits to mobile phone applications for both work and entertainment. The technologies, embodied in ...

Java: A potential market of billions Where other app stores are built for specific platforms — iPhones, for example, or Nokia handsets — the Java Store is based on Sun’s cross-platform Java ...

Security issues have long bedeviled users of Oracle’s Java SE, and on Monday the FTC’s efforts to address the problem finally came to fruition. Oracle has agreed to settle charges that it deceived ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...