Computers come equipped with many pieces of software and programming platforms that most of us don't know we have and don't know what they're for. One of those programming platforms, Java, has been in ...

If you want to be a productive member of a software development team, it's important to master the key Java programming tools and technologies. These tools reach across a variety of areas, and ...

Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

The latest State of Java report from Azul Systems shows that the 30-year-old programming language has moved with the times and is being used for advanced applications like adding artificial ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6. In ...

In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty, the technology expert in the time-traveling starship's crew, is invited to use an Apple Macintosh, the most usable computer of the 1980s.

Together, the Java Development Kit (JDK), the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) form a powerful trifecta of Java and Jakarta EE platform components for developing and ...

We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase article ...

The big picture: Java stands as one of the enduring pillars of the software world. The programming language was released by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, and so far has weathered the shifting ...