Ten years ago people were breaking into Java now and then, but always in a spirit of co-operation. We had a number of people find chinks in the armour which we fixed almost immediately.

While new programming languages vie for the hearts and minds of cloud-native developers, the future of Java focuses on widespread adoption.

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.

"IBM is funding Eclipse 100 percent and it has ten times the cash flow of Sun." Phipps, who is Sun's chief technology evangelist and advocate for open source Java, added that the Eclipse ...

Java also is appearing in cars, printers and camcorders. Alan Brenner, Sun's vice president for consumer and mobile systems, said makers of medical devices are also taking a look.

As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform ...