Sun Microsystems has taken one of the final steps on the road to keeping its promise to move its Java platform to open source, as announced at this week's JavaOne event. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...

Pretty awesome news; we should give Sun a lot of credit for finally doing this. What will be interesting now to see is whether the community and Sun can step up together and keep Java's place as a ...

Oracle has announced the release of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, Update 40 (JDK 8u40). This latest release of Oracle’s implementation of Java SE (Standard Edition), JDK 8u40, adds improvements to ...

Oracle continues to work with the Java Community to advance the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). Developer builds are now available for the upcoming Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, which will ...

Oracle has extended by four months the end-of-life (EOL) time for Java Development Kit 6 to November 2012, the company said in a blog post this week. JDK 6 is based on Java Platform, Standard Edition ...

Turning over the platform to an open source foundation could broaden the Java community, but don’t look for it to happen soon Now that Oracle wants to turn over leadership of enterprise Java’s (Java ...

Java has had plenty of bad press in recent years because of security issues. The upcoming release of Java has already been delayed, which was schedule to release September last year. But Java ...

The Wikipedia article "Java Development Kit" has incomplete and confusing information about what was released when. If someone has knowledge of this, it would be good to add it to wikipedia, with ...