Graham Hamilton, VP and Fellow in the Java platform team at Sun Microsystems, talked about the future of Java SE in today's Sun general Technical session. In the same session Bill Shannon talked ...

It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

Project Loom sets out to do this by introducing ... This would be quite a boon to Java developers, making simple concurrent tasks easier to express. If you were ever exposed to Quasar, which ...

This installment of the Open source Java projects series introduces Vert.x with two hands-on examples based on the newly released Vert.x 2.0: First, build a simple Vert.x web server, then discover ...

This is an interesting method as it will require relatively simple updates ... behind the Sumatra project are currently focusing on developing OpenCL support with Java 8 technologies, but they ...

One way to cut through marketing hype and get to the bottom of a potential new tool is to first go back to the most basic Java development tools and to see where the new tool takes you from there.

A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...