Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

As thousands of programmers converge on San Francisco to attend Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, which opens Monday, Microsoft is working in parallel to convince some of the flock to switch ...

Overview: Cloud-native and microservices architectures are becoming even more central to modern applications, with Java and ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

No programmers are happier with their language than Rust programmers. And if you know Java, you’ll find Rust relatively easy to learn. Among the newer programming languages growing in popularity is ...

As a software developer, one of the most important decisions you make is what platform or language to focus on. The choice can depend on market conditions like the languages employers are looking for, ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured ...

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming. Java developers often rely on specific database tools to efficiently ...

Sprint, Research In Motion and Motorola intensified their hunt Monday for Java software developers to create new things for wireless phones and pagers to do. All three companies unveiled new or ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...