Java's popularity hinges on future developers, adaptability Java needs to focus on the youth, adapt to emerging tech and constantly evaluate its performance to remain popular among developers.

While new programming languages vie for the hearts and minds of cloud-native developers, the future of Java focuses on widespread adoption.

The Java Community Process, or JCP, was created by Sun as the standards setting body for the Java language, libraries, and runtime. From 1998 to 2009, Sun ruled the JCP with an iron fist, but now ...

ARM Holdings licenses Sun's technology in a formalization of an existing effort to spread Java to cell phones and other small mobile devices.

According to Sun executives, that future includes tighter integration between Java applications built around the J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition), micro semiconductor technology, and J2EE (Java 2 ...