The internet as we see it today is still a fairly recent phenomenon. In 2016, even the most pedestrian, phone book-looking website aspires to be something more than merely an “entry” within the grand ...

The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...

An impending update to Java might sound like just an incremental release, based on its cumbersome naming: Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10 (Java SE 6 u10). But the upgrade actually features ...

That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

It really is the end of an era. Oracle has announced that Applets are deprecated in JDK 9 and will be removed from the JDK and JRE in the future. You may cheer and ...

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...