Recent developments around the Java platform and programming language follow a familiar pattern: incremental technical progress paired with broader strategic repositioning. Together, these changes ...

As thousands of programmers converge on San Francisco to attend Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, which opens Monday, Microsoft is working in parallel to convince some of the flock to switch ...

At its customer conference in Florida, BEA Systems fills in the details on its upcoming WebLogic Platform 8.1, and hopes Java developers will do more than just listen. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

2024 Java Developer Productivity Report finds most companies plan to add Java developers this year, though most tool budgets not rising. Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said ...

.Net strategy turns up the heat in war for developer affections... Microsoft has launched a new web services programming language called Visual J# .Net in an attempt to lure developers away from ...

Not all Java frameworks matter in 2026. Focus needs to be on the ones companies actually use in real projects.Choosing the ...

Java development frameworks can help developers get an application up and running faster, offering code reuse and eliminating the task of building boilerplate code Java development frameworks can help ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...