Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

External rules simplify custom business logic for non-developer subject experts. The Java lambda syntax is easier to read and write than large rules engines. By combining Java lambda syntax with an ...

Microsoft Corp. secured a new court victory in its effort to move beyond its legal problems as a federal appeals court dismissed an order requiring the company to include rival Sun Microsystem's Java ...

Make Java security a top priority at every stage of application development, from class-level language features to API endpoint authorization Security is one of the most complex, broad, and important ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. rolled out a Java Virtual Machine at the JavaOne developers conference aimed at boosting the Java language's performance nearly tenfold on next-generation ...