BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should ...

There's Java the programming language and then there are ... natural units of scheduling for OSes," Chander points out. "The problem is that the implementation of threads by the OS is too heavyweight.

Thanks to the JCP, the Java language has been extensively revised to address all kinds of different programming problems. Case in point (see sidebar) is how a simple Java function to sum an array of ...

Java is transitioning into a functional programming language, introducing direct support ... A functional programming language takes a different approach to problem-solving from the traditional ...

From a start in which there were rough corners lying here and there, Java has evolved into a tool that can address almost every kind of programming problem. The advent of Java 8 in particular ...

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The other day we wrote an article about Java incompatibilities causing problems with Apple's Mail program, and linked to an Apple knowledgebase article that claimed the simple way to reinstall ...

Java, the programming language ... brought in trademark consultants after realizing that it might face some problems in trademarking the word “Oak.” The team brainstormed new names and ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

Streams and lambdas are an incredibly useful way to work with Java’s collections. Functional programming is in general a great addition to the overall range of tools available to us in building ...