One high point of the session came when Red Hat engineer Tom Tromey essentially offered to throw the project he's worked on for nearly a decade, Java compiler GCJ, onto the funeral pyre. While ...

The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...