If Java on the desktop isn’t dead yet, its latest security update should go a long way toward convincing people it should be. How urgent is this new security update? Urgent enough that Oracle ...

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

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...

Sun releases Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0, intended to make Java programs run faster and take less time to build.

Java has been in the news a lot lately, and not for good reasons. Critical security flaws have allowed hackers to take complete control of PCs, and in-the-wild attacks exposed a problem Oracle ...

Take a walk on the client side with Qt Jambi -- an alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces.