Disabling Java in OS X requires doing so for each user account; however, even terminal commands for doing this may be a bit impractical to use as a substitute. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

Sun Microsystems plans to simplify its Java license for commercial software companies. The new licensing tack is designed to give those developers more flexibility in how they can use the Java ...

To learn part of a new API or even some important Java nuance, you'll often find it useful to run a short bit of code. In this Java Tip, Shawn Silverman explains how to easily and quickly test one ...

BOSTON--Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive ...

Hoping to spur wider use of its software, Sun said Wednesday that businesses with less than 100 employees can download the Java Enterprise System for free, minus any services and technical support.

Despite recent comments to the contrary, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Java are alive and well, according to Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist.

Sun has designed Java Studio Creator to be the Visual Basic of Java and J2EE Web development. It’s not there yet, but JSC is a major improvement over NetBeans, Eclipse, and even IntelliJ and JBuilder ...

IBM’s reported interest in buying Sun Microsystems has Java and open-source community members expressing both hopes and worries about the implications of such a deal on the tools, applications ...

BOSTON--Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, ...