To truly take advantage of modern Java, apps built for the ecosystem must be constantly maintained to maximize performance and minimize exposure to risks and security vulnerabilities. Applications are ...

Sun Microsystems is seeking to revamp the way in which security is executed in Java and wants developers to try to break the new paradigm to gauge its effectiveness. An initiative called “Crack the ...

February 10, 2004—An Internet petition has been posted urging an upgrade to the Java Data Objects specification for Java object persistence, amidst a movement by the Java Community Process (JCP) to ...

JRuby 1.5, an upgrade to the Ruby language variant that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, will be made available Wednesday, featuring better accommodations for Java and build tools and improved ...

The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, with improvements eyed in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel ...

Oracle has announced Java 8, which company officials describe as the largest upgrade to the programming model since Java was introduced in 1996. Java is broadly used on a wide range of systems from ...