Commercial Java adopters who favor permissive licensing were supportive of Harmony, but were unable to compel Sun to provide access to the compatibility tests under appropriate licensing terms.

Sun is making its own version of Java open-source software, but its Java Compatibility Kit remains closed.

On Wednesday, IBM said it is committed to maintaining Java compatibility and asserts that this can be achieved in an open-source development model.

The language's stability and backward compatibility have ensured that even as trends come and go, Java remains a constant in the back offices of countless businesses.

With developers ready to move from building Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to JDK 9, Oracle’s chief Java executive proposes to restrict merges between the two code lines. In an email posted to an ...

What’s new in Clojure 1.10 Version 1.10 supports Java 8 through Java 11. It updates the module system introduced in Java 9, fixes bytecode-related bugs, and removes deprecated APIs.

The Apache Foundation's Geronimo project has passed an important Java compatibility test, paving the way for the third open-source Java application server on the market. On Wednesday, engineers ...

No doubt, Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to create web applications and platforms. However, it is not necessarily the best fit for the new cloud-native development ...

Oracle doesn't plan to make the key Java compatibility test suite available under licensing terms that are appropriate for Apache's Harmony project. IBM has responded by shifting its focus away ...

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards.