What is Java to you? A programming language you learned in college? The lingua franca of corporate IT? Would you believe that Java is poised to dominate the next explosion of the Internet? Built ...

The weekly -- sometimes daily -- security scares that occur with the Java programming language are starting to remind me of the old whack-a-mole arcade game. Researchers or hackers discover a ...

Internet browsers use Java for interactive Web content Program is a major target for hackers Update to the most recent version to avoid security risks The weekly — sometimes daily — security ...

It found that Python, Java, SQL and JavaScript appeared the most frequently in developer job ads, each appearing in more than 50,000 listings on Indeed. All four saw a significant jump in demand ...

Lambda expressions are the biggest features integrated into Java 8. This functional programming paradigm was, until now, missing from Java. Its inclusion now will only help Java grow in the right ...

Two decades of large-scale investment in Java's developing language and platform is strikingly rare in the history of languages.

When Sun engineers developed Java in the mid 1990s, it was a solid if not astounding advance in the art and science of computer programming. Java's creators borrowed ideas from the widely-used ...

A lingua franca for the Internet Far from producing a universal programming language, the Internet is encouraging a proliferation of new ones. Whichever language, Java or C#, wins today's battle ...