After extensive beta testing, Sun Microsystems has released update 10 of its Java Platform Standard Edition 6, with many significant enhancements. Will this lead to a resurgence of Java applications ...

Over two years in the making, Sun Microsystems is due to release the latest version of its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software Monday, placing particular emphasis on the application ...

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications. It includes tools and libraries that enable developers to write, compile, and execute Java ...

Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (also called 6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client ...

Write once, run everywhere: that's the slogan the Java community uses to propagate their language-of-choice. It's probably true, but only if you first manage to set up the beast on your box. This ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program. The ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

Sun Microsystems has delivered updates to JavaFX, its platform for rich Internet application development, and to Java Platform Standard Edition. JavaFX 1.2, launched at the JavaOne conference in San ...