In 2005, the Apache Software Foundation announced Project Harmony, an attempt to make an open-source version of the core Java software. IBM, a major Java ally, joined Project Harmony months later.

But Java programs, slow to load and run and lacking the refined interface of Windows programs, haven't caught on widely on desktop machines. Sun has had more success with Java in servers and ...

Sun controls the license that governs use of the Java programming language and software required to run Java programs. Commercial companies, such as IBM and Oracle, use the Sun Community Source ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...