First, why is Java cross-platform? Let's dig into the history of the language first. Sun Microsystems, the inventor of Java, was a popular vendor in the computer workstation market in the 1990s. As ...

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The cloud-native Java platform simplifies deployment and ensures security and compliance. Payara Qube is purpose-built for organizations under pressure to modernize without sacrificing security, ...

Open-source Java development tools and runtimes provider Azul has announced plans to unite its commercial products into a single "Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise." Called the Azul ...

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The Eclipse Foundation has released the latest version of its enterprise Java application platform in Jakarta EE 11, promising simpler data access, streamlined testing processes, and Java 21 support.

The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group has released Jakarta EE 11, the latest version of its enterprise Java platform, marking a significant step in modernizing enterprise Java development ...

Monday’s decision in Google v. Oracle reminds us that occasionally the Supreme Court can take a big case and actually decide it! So many of the intellectual-property cases that reach the justices ...

Positioned as a replacement for multiple Java technologies, the ActiveJ platform is being put forward as a minimalistic, boilerplate-free, and fast technology stack for web, cloud, microservices, and ...

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Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. The IEEE Computer Society lists it as one of the ...