The FreeBSD Foundation has released a binary distribution of the Java Development Kit for its Unix-based operating system, FreeBSD, marking the first time the operating system has sported native Java ...

Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors. The project ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

Oracle's debut of Java Standard Edition 7 in July was a significant event on several fronts. The release was the first major update to the development platform in nearly five years. It also marked the ...