Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client Platform ...

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Oracle has tapped IBM and Red Hat to help transition Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation in an effort to further open the platform and spur innovation around it.

While the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) can execute Java code, an application server handles all the external intricacies of running a Java program in a full-scale production setting.

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While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focuses his attention on the America's Cup sailing race, Oracle is rushing to keep up in another race, the one to get its Java SE (Standard Edition) in the cloud.