That includes 10 books about computers and electronics. Joshua Bloch, the author of “Effective Java,” a guide to the popular computer programming language, which showed up on the banned list, said ...

Chad Arimura, vice-president of Java developer relations at Oracle, said Project Amber, for example, is a language level feature that was built to support emerging software development trends.

Java Community Process chair Heather VanCura talks up efforts to keep Java up to speed with the needs of developers in the era of cloud and agile software development.

It took them months to patch over 2,600 open source projects they discovered on GitHub alone, even if some patches were mere one-line changes. Mad Gadget still affects closed source projects ...