Java would be extended to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming, through an OpenJDK proposal called Project Babylon.. Posted in an ...

IBM and open-source Java software company JBoss Group are in discussions to spearhead a Java standardization effort aimed at cooling off the growing popularity of Microsoft's C# language. The two ...

Detailing motivation for the plan, the proposal says Java developers rely on final fields to represent immutable state. The expectation that a final field cannot be reassigned, ...

Part of that plan, however, involves the end of life for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6, so Oracle’s roadmap might ruffle some feathers. Here is what is on tap from Oracle for Java.

Sun Microsystems will begin releasing significant open-source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to the gadget version of the software technology.

Big Blue and open-source Java software company JBoss Group are mulling a Java standardization effort aimed at countering the growing popularity of Microsoft's C# language. IBM, JBoss eye new Java ...

Sun Microsystems will begin releasing significant open-source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to the gadget version of the software technology.