I recently had the misfortune of waiting at the airport for roughly six hours as my flight was repeatedly delayed 30 minutes at a time until it was ultimately canceled. The one silver lining in this ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

Java will be 30 years old in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

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SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems plans to build ties between the different flavors of Java in an effort to present the programming technology as more unified. Sun has created four major classes of Java ...

Simple, familiar to developers from C and C++ backgrounds. Object-Oriented(OOP) Java is purely object-oriented, meaning everything in Java is treated as an object. Platform-Independent (WORA) - Write ...

Heads up, programmers: Google opted to create its own Java standards and technology for its Android mobile phone, not piggyback on the existing Java Community Process. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

In part 1 of this series, Gary uploaded an awesome post and video explaining the basics of Java programming. Java is the official programming language of Android; so if you want to build fully-fledged ...