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. [ ...

He then surveys the two JSRs that propose to bring modularity to Java 7 — JSR 291: Dynamic Component Support for Java SE and JSR 277: Java Module System. Both would bring the programming model ...

The opening keynote presentation for JavaOne, the world’s largest gathering of software developers who use the Java language, celebrated the 20th anniversary of Java and its extraordinary growth ...