The JCP has made key changes to JCP 2.6 that will make the process of finalizing Java Specification Requests (JSRs)--which ultimately can become Java standards--more transparent to the public, said ...

With Oracle tightening its grip and the Apache Foundation threatening revolt, could this be the end of the Java Community Process as we know it? A new emperor has arisen and has begun consolidating ...

IBM will abandon the Apache Harmony open-source implementation of Java and work with Oracle on the OpenJDK project instead, the companies have announced. The collaboration will make the OpenJDK the ...

Oracle's debut of Java Standard Edition 7 in July was a significant event on several fronts. The release was the first major update to the development platform in nearly five years. It also marked the ...

When Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems a few weeks ago, one of the pledges the company made pertaining to its newly acquired Sun technologies was to make the Java Community Process ...

I remember a time when the whole world seemed to be uniting behind Java. I was at the IBM news conference in 1995 when IBM VP John Patrick first announced IBM was lining up behind Sun's multi-platform ...

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 already ...

A frequently asked question in a Java interview is: How to implement a Java HashMap? Java job seekers must fully grok this important concept if they want to ace the interview. The HashMap tutorial ...

The Apache Software Foundation is usually a nice, quiet organization that supports the development of quite a lot of open source software. Unlike the Free Software Foundation, it doesn’t usually get ...