The lowest-level approach demonstrated at the conference — placing the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on hardware — was not strictly aimed at developers. ARM offers Jazelle, extending 32-bit RISC ...

VMware has issued an update to a number of its products fixing an information disclosure bug in Oracle’s Java runtime environment. Virtual Machine maker VMware has updated a slew of its offerings in ...

Java has been in the news a lot lately, and not for good reasons. Critical security flaws have allowed hackers to take complete control of PCs, and in-the-wild attacks exposed a problem Oracle went ...

This year’s JavaOne conference -- the first to be held under Oracle tutelage -- had a lot to prove. Nine million Java programmers worldwide wanted to see a firm roadmap for Java, and they were given ...

IBM has sent an open letter to Sun Microsystems urging them to make Java open source. In a letter, sent by IBM’s vice president of emerging technology Rob Smith, IBM offered to provide technical ...

A previously unknown and currently unpatched security hole in the latest version of the Java software framework is under attack online, according to security researchers and bloggers. According to ...

Oracle has issued a security update for the Java runtime environment to address ‘zero day’ vulnerabilities exposed earlier this week. The company is encouraging users to install the patched version as ...

Foojay.io, the community site for developers who use, target, and run their applications on top of Java and OpenJDK, today announced the companies who will make up its advisory board. The roster ...

Sun Microsystems wants to increase the number of Java developers from 3 million today to as many as 10 million, company officials said during a teleconference with the media on Wednesday. Java has to ...