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.

His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services. I thought so too, from the moment I created my first servlet five ...

BR><BR>Two questions...<BR><BR>1) What's the best java compiler (coding enviroment, gui, I'm not sure what its called)? The school uses WebGain VisualCafe.<BR><BR>2) When coding client-server ...

Java's origins trace back to the early 1990s, when a team at Sun Microsystems led by James Gosling set out to develop a language for interactive ...