The popularity of Spring Boot has renewed interest in core Spring concepts, such as the meaning of inversion of control and the application of dependency injection. Here, we explore the concept of ...

Declining Interest in Java EE Doesn't Mean Java Is in Decline As we reported earlier, Java won TIOBE's annual popularity contest for 2015, and came in a close second among languages used on GitHub, ...

In January and April 2014, Oracle has released critical Java software security updates. They resolve vulnerabilities that affected the "Java Secure Socket Extension" (JSSE), a software library ...

Software developers can breathe a massive sigh of relief — a jury found today that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use. However, Oracle attorneys have ...

Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.

Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler Here’s an example of a feature included in Java 10 that’s not entirely ready for prime time, and that’s why it’s called experimental.

Microsoft's implementation of OpenJDK is now ready for developers who want to use Java on the Azure cloud.

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...

Sun Microsystems wanted $30 million to $50 million from Google for a Java license, but Google decided to build its own implementation for Android after negotiations broke down, Google Executive ...