Sun has released a beta version of the next release of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), a set of specifications used for creating desktop applications and which also form the basis of Java development ...

Sun Microsystems is seeking to revamp the way in which security is executed in Java and wants developers to try to break the new paradigm to gauge its effectiveness. An initiative called “Crack the ...

The MicroProfile Working Group, the open forum that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture, just released their latest iteration, MicroProfile 7.1. After ten months of development, ...

OpenJDK plan would improve support for archived Java heap objects in class data sharing, aligning with the Project Leyden effort to improve startup performance. Efforts to improve Java program startup ...