G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments. A change to Java’s G1 garbage collector would lower the ...

Oracle’s head of Java security is promising the vendor will “fix” issues with the widely used programming language, as well as improve its outreach efforts to community members, following a spate of ...

After being blasted for making early releases of its security patches available to developers for weeks and even months before fixing the problem, Sun will now change the way it updates Java 2 ...