Sun has officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new rich Internet application (RIA) development framework that is built on top of the Java platform. Sun aims to boost Java's waning relevance for client ...

Java has a strong brand in programming circles, but the technology caught on chiefly for use on servers and mobile phones. Sun is trying to go full circle with JavaFX , billing the software as a ...

Sami Shaio, then a Sun engineer, recalls the brainstorming meeting, held sometime around January of 1995. “It’s actually hard to say where ‘Java’ first came from, but it ended up on the ...