A six-month release cycle for the Java Platform gives Java developers something to look forward to at least twice a year. However, there's far more to get excited about for Java in 2023 than just two ...

First, why is Java cross-platform? Let's dig into the history of the language first. Sun Microsystems, the inventor of Java, was a popular vendor in the computer workstation market in the 1990s. As ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

In the fast-changing world of technology, very few programming languages can claim a three-decade run at the centre of enterprise IT. Java, born in the mid-1990s, turned 30 this year, still powering ...

Java apps are not new to anyone in the world. It became famous worldwide due to the invention of the internet. It has revolutionized people's communication, and Java apps have brought the world more ...

Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its lead ...

A new report from IDC suggests that Java has found itself a better home with Oracle. That's good news for developers and ISVs. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...

Despite advances in cloud computing, mobile development, and AI, the day-to-day business of enterprises around the world still runs on three programming languages that made their debut in the 1990s.

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...

Talk about a couple of nags. Adobe Reader and Oracle Java are almost constantly asking to install new updates. What’s with these two, and do you really have to accept all the updating? Hackers can ...