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.

Java continues to dominate the developer landscape as the No. 1 programming language in use today. It remains atop the TIOBE Index. According to Simply Hired, since April 2009, Java jobs increased ...

Java still going strong. Java continues to rank among the top three programming languages in the most prominent language popularity indexes—Tiobe, RedMonk, and PyPL.Java had enjoyed a five-year ...

Homeland Security says Java computer language has serious security flaws. Millions of computer users may be affected. ... Java was developed by Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought in 2010.

Java faces encroachment from dynamic languages such as Ruby in the Web application tier, but Java can be improved, and Java virtual machine functionality can be extended to dynamic languages, said ...

James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

Mobile phone giants Vodafone and Nokia teamed up on Thursday to simplify software for cell phones written with the Java computer language that promises to bring cheaper, smarter handsets. They ...