But if Java 8 follows the pattern of delays from Java 7, these slim pickings may be all the crumbs the Java community gets for another five years. This story, "What will Java 7 mean for you?" ...

Hopefully, Java 8 will be released as planned in late 2012 with all the stuff we’ve been waiting for. If so, I expect most shops will skip Java 7.

Java 10 is the first release on the new six-month schedule, and it builds incrementally on the significant new functionality that appeared in Java 9, which had a multiyear gestation period.

A Java compiler takes a text file and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file, meaning the compiled code can run on any OS. Learn how it works.

Now that Oracle has handed off the technology formerly known as Java Enterprise Edition to the Eclipse Foundation, and the resulting EE4J Project will be developing that technology rebranded as ...

It seems like every other day, Java has another security hole that everybody craps their pants over. Can you settle the Java debate for me once and for all? What is it, really? Is it the same as ...

We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need." Oracle presented this e-mail as evidence that Google knew it needed a license to Java and did not obtain one.

Those talks fell apart, meaning that Google didn't use the official Java logo for Android or some of its technology.