Sun Microsystems' decision to make Java SE open source won't make any difference to the majority of Java programmers, according to the company's chief open-source officer. Simon Phipps, speaking at a ...

Sun's decision to dump 1,300 people was expected. Less expected was where they came from. Open source. Included are people who worked on OpenJDK, desktop Java, the Java 2 Standard Edition (JavaSE) ...

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...