Halloween may have passed, but some of last week's Java news is still casting a creepy pall on the Java landscape. Last week I reported on Apple's decision to deprecate Java on Mac OS X and Doug Lea's ...

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Since the IBM-Sun merger has continued to not happen, I officially declare myself bored with making further speculation on the matter until we hear some concrete announcement. Believe it or not, other ...

It’s the end of the World’s Slowest News Week here in Java land, which also happens to be simultaneously the last week of 2008 and the first of 2009. The biggest news stories over the last year or so, ...