Due to economic slowdowns, network carriers are waiting for demand to recover before they replace or expand aging network infrastructure equipment. When the market rebounds, expect rapid jockeying for ...

As the Java programming language continues its inroads into the embedded-systems market, the major focus has been on how to deliver an efficient Java run-time system on embedded devices. Although Java ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.’s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop. On Tuesday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance ...

In the four years since its introduction, the Java programming language has made tremendous progress, becoming widely accepted as one of the most important computing languages. Web surfers inevitably ...

Remembering what the programming world was like in 1995 is no easy task. Object-oriented programming, for one, was an accepted but seldom practiced paradigm, with much of what passed as so-called ...

Sun celebrated 10 years of Java last month at its annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy opened the show by inviting Microsoft and Linux operating system vendor ...

Java could play a bigger part in networking for the Internet of things. The Kona Project, proposed on openjdk.java.net this week, would define and implement Java APIs for networking technologies and ...

A new trojan horse has cropped up that affects Mac OS X (and Windows as well), primarily disguised as a video flitting around social networking sites. When users click an infected link, a Java applet ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- General Motors Corp. is embracing Java-based technologies -- hoping to drive down decisively the cost of integrating network applications used in manufacturing, purchasing, ...

In addition, Java SE 6 includes built-in support for script engines, and JSR 223 defines a standard interface to interact with dynamic languages running on the Java platform. In order to take ...