In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

James Gosling, creator of the Java computer language and one of the most prominent employees in Oracle Corp's <ORCL.O> newly acquired Sun Microsystems, has resigned from Oracle.

Given its tendency toward verbosity and strict syntax, it might not be the best idea to teach Java as an introductory programming language. Accessible alternatives to Java -- like Python -- exist and ...

After 20 years at the top of the programming-language tree, Java looks set to be overtaken by Python.

In the U.S., Java was still a popular nickname for coffee in the late 1990s when the computer programming language was developed, said Georges Saab, the vice president of development for Java at ...

James Gosling, creator of the Java computer language and one of the most prominent employees in Oracle Corp's <ORCL.O> newly acquired Sun Microsystems, has resigned from Oracle.

The Java programming language celebrates its silver anniversary this week, with May 23, 2020, marking 25 years from the day Sun Microsystems first introduced Java to the world. The venerable ...