Azul’s high-performance Java platform, Azul Platform Prime, includes a JDK distribution that is compatible with the Java SE spec for a given LTS release, and has enhanced JDK characteristics ...

In addition, Java SE 6 includes built-in support for script engines, and JSR 223 defines a standard interface to interact with dynamic languages running on the Java platform.

When Oracle announced Java's new release cadence - with a new feature version appearing every 6 months, the intent was to increase the pace of innovation within the platform.

February 2nd, in snowy Stockholm, I found myself in an authentic Viking-themed restaurant, sitting at the table with Mark Reinhold, Java platform chief architect, and John Rose, Java VM architect, for ...

Java is an open source code, meaning it is free for all to download, which Oracle says happens about 1billion times per year making it by a large margin the world’s most popular download.

The first feature proposed to undergo this process, javax.midi.sound, is listed in JSR 270. Mark Reinhold, Chief Engineer for the Java Platform SE, discusses the new guidelines on his blog.

When Sun Microsystems introduced Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME, which was renamed recently to Java ME) to the world in 2000, the promise was to bring Java's "write once, run anywhere" ...