Growing numbers of retailers are scoping out Java-based point-of-sale (POS) systems as one option to replace their aging cash registers. Several retailers that are either deploying or piloting Java ...

Michael Mathews of Montavista explains how the combination of anembedded Linux OS and Java technologies can provide a option forflexible project development. Today we are witnessing the dawning of a ...

The company delivers the first components of an important release of its Java server software and drops the price of its entry-level Java server product. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

In an attempt to capitalize on the huge opportunity in the embedded systems market, and the dominance of the Java programming platform, Oracle has unwrapped a new set of offerings facilitating the ...

The latest Java zero-day hole ascended to the level of a national security threat. Has the tipping point for Java finally come? If the IT industry had a color-coded threat-level advisory system, the ...

Java 8 is out the gate. It’s big step forward for embedded applications, and a few of its many new features stand out. First is the simplification and unification of the different versions of Java.

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

The unpatched Java vulnerability reported last week could be exploited by malware to infect your system, although no such infections have been discovered to date. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...