Ethan Nicholas was recently hired by Sun to work on his dream of a Java Browser Edition. Except they're calling it the Java Kernel now, and if initial experiments are any indication, the team will be ...

The importance of Java test frameworks in modern, Agile software development simply can't be understated. Of course, software developers tend to like writing code more than they like writing tests, ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

Browser vendors are moving away from plug-ins. Now Oracle is encouraging developers to migrate Java Applets to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology With browser plug-ins going the way of the ...