The voice was like a voice of doom. It was the voice of Dr. Hubertus Johannes van Mook, Lieutenant Governor General of The Netherlands East Indies: It is not that dozens of battleships, scores of ...

Several leading Java tool vendors are building an organization to link their respective frameworks in an effort to offer an alternative to Microsoft Corp.s .Net framework and Visual Studio tools. The ...

A closely watched feud over Java standards moves closer to resolution, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

While organizers of the JavaOne conference seem oblivious, there’s a crescendo of complaints and near-universal agreement among security researchers that the Java Runtime Environment is full of holes, ...

Oracle and Swiss mobile software platform vendor Myriad Group are locked in a legal battle over Java licensing issues, one with an apparent connection to Google. Myriad filed suit against Oracle on ...

The Battle of Java Sea, fought on February 27, 1942, marked the high tide of Japanese naval power in the Pacific. Poor organization, strategic confusion, inter-service competition, and national ...

Behind such programs and more is the very technology at the center of an intense battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over control of desktop computers. Though Sun has mostly lost that fight, ...