Update: A few days after this article’s publication, Oracle issued a statement to Ars saying that the company remains committed to Java EE development. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oracle ...

Released in 1995, the philosophy behind Java is "write once, run anywhere." In other words, a program written in Java can theoretically run on any machine that supports it. While the implementation ...

Administrators who support Java applications and various Oracle databases should pay close attention to the latest quarterly security update from Oracle, as more than a third of the security fixes ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To connect to a database from a Java program, you must use a JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) ...

On June 16, Oracle Corporation released financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, and corporate executives trumpeted the company's cloud services success. According to the latest ...

Sun Chairman Scott McNealy (left) with Oracle chief Larry Ellison. With the move- valued at $7.4 billion including Sun's debt - Oracle also becomes a full-fledged hardware player. Oracle has been ...