Some Internet appliance and embedded device developers have concluded that current implementations of the Java specifications are either functionally incomplete for their use, too slow, too unreliable ...

The big news today was that Java is going to be released for free under the GPL license. This comes hot off the heals of Adobe's decision to open source their ActionScript Virtual Machine (my thoughts ...

xStockholm, Sweden — An Internet-ready SNAP (Simple Networking Application Platform) hardware/software module has been released that includes multiple industry standard interfaces for local devices, ...

Bruce Eckel, the author of Thinking in Java and a pretty influential figure in the Java community posted a long, eloquent assessment of the web, Java and Rich Internet Applications. To me it's a ...

After more than two years on the back burner, Firefox has finally introduced click-to-play for all plug-ins, including Flash, Java, and Silverlight. Plug-ins are the single biggest cause of browser ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

If you listen to Oracle, Java is what you should use to develop applications for embedded systems, particularly those involving M2M (machine-to-machine) communications. Embedded systems comprise an ...

Looking to enable Java applications to have finer control over internet addressing, plans are afoot in the OpenJDK community to develop a service provider interface (SPI) for host name and address ...