The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development. Video: Sun launches JavaFX Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda ...

A core feature of the MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) technology is its support for developing mobile phone user interfaces. The MIDP provides a set of Java APIs known as the LCDUI, which has ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

Australian-owned BuyItOnline has developed and released JPassport, a Java-based version of Microsoft's much-publicised product, Passport, which allows an e-commerce Web sites access to Microsoft's ...

The Java wars have spilled into the consumer market. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are teaming to compete against Sun Microsystems in the nascent market for technology that networks consumer ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday plans to introduce a friendlier way to write Java applications for consumer devices, an attempt to derive more profit from Java and stake a greater claim in the next ...