JavaOne: Java SE to support Visual Basic He talks about plans for performance, monitoring, scripting, desktop features, web services, and yes, even Visual Basic. Written by Ed Burnette ...

BEA Systems--a company long committed to the Java programming language--plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products. As part of its long-term plans, BEA is considering ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: When learning a programming language for the first time it can be difficult to see how lines of code translate to visual elements. Free educational webapp Greenfoot provides a ...

Oracle has released the Oracle Java Platform extension for Visual Studio Code, bringing full-featured Java development for Maven and Gradle projects to Microsoft’s popular code editor. Available ...

It also includes a script engine based on Rhino, an open source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. Sun has created a set of scripting engines, available at java.net. Java SE 6 also ...

Microsoft's dev team put AI to work to explain different kinds of expressions in the latest update to Java tooling for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft stewards the development of Java tooling for its ...

Sun releases Java Standard Edition 6, a Java desktop update meant to work better with scripting languages.