The upstart open-source software provider says it will participate as a company in Java technical committees in another effort to improve its standing in the Java community. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Sun Microsystems may have streamlined its Java development process and intensified its marketing around the openess of the programming language and platform, but some smaller partners are still not ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a ...

The Java Community Process is frequently under fire from community members who have called for greater transparency and even independence from Sun. Some say the real problem with the JCP is too little ...

Although it's nearly 25 years old, the Java programming language has gained renewed interest lately from major cloud platform providers -- namely, AWS and Microsoft. For instance, this week AWS joined ...

There are three Diamond Sponsors of JavaOne 2011 and each gets an opportunity in a JavaOne 2011 keynote to address the conference attendees. Intel had their opportunity in the Technical (Opening) ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A group of leading Java software companies Tuesday banded ...

A system for allowing third parties to submit requests for new features to Java. JCP is a formal process, and fees are involved. In 1999, Sun submitted Java to the ECMA standards body, but withdrew ...

SAN FRANCISCO (06/03/2009) – Will Oracle be good to Java’s developers? That’s the question on everyone’s mind at this year’s JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle’s planned US$7.4 ...

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 ...

It's been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But ...