The 30th anniversary of Java, being celebrated this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes ...

For the past several months, I have been somewhat of a Groovy evangelist and have been touting the virtues of Groovy to Java developer colleagues. Recently, a colleague asked if Groovy has a slick ...

The Java cloud offerings are steadily growing better and more sophisticated, but they’re far from a finished set of products. Several of the tools here are perfectly open about their half-baked ...

At the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft announced the company has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold Member. What's Microsoft doing joining an open-source Platform ...

But in a cloud native world, optimizing how a Java program’s logic is interpreted and run on cloud servers via annotations and other compilation details takes on new importance, he warns.

Essential Java programming tools and technologies In terms of what's essential for software developers to have installed on their local machine or perhaps even have access to in the cloud, the ...

The Ecstasy programming language is a new language that could complement or supplant Java as the language for the cloud-native computing era. The language, which comes from a startup named Xqiz.it ...

Sellers says Java is better suited than other programming languages for developing and running traditional enterprise applications that require a high degree of parallelism.

Java, the programming language, isn’t even 30 years old yet, but the history of the word goes back several centuries, to a time when coffee trees were plentiful in Indonesia and people were ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated.