Apache Geode has been revived after a near shutdown. Geode 2.0 is positioned as a modernization reset, not a minor upgrade.

Bull has developed a transaction processing application platform, dubbed Libert TP, which it says will allow businesses to move legacy applications from Cobol or C to Java. Laurent de Jerphanion, ...

Sun Microsystems has had a prominent executive leave over Sun’s decision to offer Java via an open source paradigm, a Sun representative confirmed on Monday evening. Graham Hamilton, who had been a ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

Microsoft today announced its "Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 21," taking advantage of new features and functionality in Java 21. In its "About the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK" guidance, the company says: ...

The open-source license includes the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine and the Java compiler (JavaC) components of Java SE. According to Sun, the move to open source will remove any inconsistencies in its ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...