Upstart JBoss Group will on Monday debut a new release of its popular open-source application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java standard compliance. Martin ...

Sun Microsystems unveiled the next generation of the core implementation of its Java platform this week. The Java Platform Standard Edition 6, available now to developers on the Sun Developer Network, ...

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 ...

Day Software, a content management and integration vendor based in Newport Beach, Calif., initially proposed the Java Specification Request 170 in February. "This is a good thing they're doing," said ...

Following a number of reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plug-in, Oracle has today released an emergency update to Java 7 as Apple updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_43. Today ...

Sun’s starting to phase out mobile Java (Java Micro Edition) that’s been the standard on cellphones and other small devices in favor of their standard edition, which are made for PCs everywhere. Sun ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

I mostly use Groovy for scripting and many of my scripting needs require the ability to navigate directory structures. In writing such scripts, it is helpful to know which properties are available out ...