It will modify its licenses to make access to the Java source code easier, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said Wednesday. But it stopped short of creating an open-source license--something ...

Source code for Java already is available and has been for 10 years, he said. The current model for Java is close to an open source model, Gosling said. Java developers, meanwhile, want to ...

Google's trying to make that job a little easier, introducing a new tool that automatically converts Java source code into Objective-C, which is used in iPad and iPhone apps. While the J2ObjC tool ...