Remember when Oracle bought Sun? The one thing that seemed to make sense about this deal was Oracle's acquisition of Java. Almost 10 years later, Oracle gave up on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), aka ...

Oracle’s stewardship of Java is under fire — again. This time, the company’s development of Java EE (Enterprise Edition) has become a sore spot for devotees of the platform, including Java creator ...

Gartner has produced an analyst report called “Market Guide for Application Platforms”, citing Java EE’s “revenue decline” in reporting “a clear shift” downward in the application platform market. The ...

The state of innovation in Java EE was so in question that, earlier this summer, the Java Guardians were formed to champion the platform and demand that it be pushed forward. At JavaOne today, Oracle ...

When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems in 2010, the immediate worry in the marketplace was that the company would become a bad actor around Java. Six years later, it would seem that these fears have ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. After a series of trademark reviews to secure a proper name that passed legal and trademark ...

Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse. The announcement came ahead of Java EE 8's release this fall when ...

The details of Java EE 6 have been getting hashed out for quite a few months in the JSR 316 expert group, which I am part of. The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the changes in Java ...