Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Sun Microsystems is trying a new way to share its Java server software, launching a project called GlassFish that lets outsiders tinker with the project's source code but that stops well short of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will offer Java for free to widen distribution and adoption of the software platform among developers and companies using open- ...

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems’ open source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project. Red ...

A survey has found that a significant majority of organizations using Oracle Corp.’s (NYSE:ORCL) Java have been audited in the past three years. This has led to a surge in the migration to open-source ...

Compiling Java code to WebAssembly is an efficient way to get it running in a web browser, and you get a serious performance boost. Let's check it out. WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a generalized, ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...