A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle Corp. announced today the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software ...

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Oracle Corp. has pushed the target release date of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) to the first half of 2017. Updates of the target dates for the Java Specification Requests (JSRs) ...

When leafing through the pages of the recently ratified JSR-375, the new Java EE Security API, it's amusing how quickly the reading of the spec turns into an exercise of uttering to yourself, ...

CORBA, Java EE, and JavaFX support will be removed, while just a handful of new features are being added—so far Now that Oracle has released Java Development Kit 10, the next version, JDK 11, is just ...

Update: A few days after this article’s publication, Oracle issued a statement to Ars saying that the company remains committed to Java EE development. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oracle ...

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 ...