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.

Microsoft Corp. suffered a setback Tuesday in its battle against rival Sun Microsystems Inc. over Microsoft's use of the Java programing language, a tool Sun had developed as a way to create ...

According to a recent survey from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Python has overtaken Java as the programming language of choice to introduce students to computer science.