Here we examine not only the motivation for Java's platform independence, but how the JVM and bytecode make Java's cross-platform capabilities possible.

4Use OSGi to Make Java a Great Cloud Platform Embrace the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) as the modularity standard and use that to drive Java as a great platform for the cloud.

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

As Oracle slowly relinquishes more and more control of the Java Platform to the open-source community, one starts to wonder if being stewards of the Java Platform was more of a curse or a blessing.

June 8, 2001— As an object-oriented, network-enabled, platform-spanning language smart enough to include primitive data types for efficiency, Java has always been cool. But it just keeps getting ...

While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture ...

This week's Java roundup for March 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.3, Spring point and milestone releases, Payara Platform, Quarkus 3.0.CR1, Micronaut 3.8.8, WildFly ...

The Java Platform Module System (JPMS) is a code-level structure, so it doesn’t change the fact that we package Java into JAR files. Ultimately, everything is still bundled together in JAR files.