Executives from IBM and Sun Microsystems defend their positions with respect to a common tools framework for Java. Here in Part 2, Sun's Simon Phipps has his say.

We’ve used examples in JavaScript to study five core functional programming techniques, which we’ll further explore using Java code in Part 2. In addition to touring Java 8’s functional ...

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

One feature that distinguishes Java from other computer languages is its garbage collection abilities. In this article, Jeff Friesen introduces you to garbage collection and shows how Java's ...

MPI is a language-independent communications protocol used to program parallel computers . Many Java versions of the MPI standard have been developed. mpiJava and MPJ are typical. mpiJava is ...

RMI is the Java version of what's known as a remote procedure call , but with the additional ability to pass one or more objects along with the request. It enables remote communication between ...