Sun Microsystems has thoroughly invested itself in addressing these challenges. The result, released this month, is Sun’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) software developer’s kit (SDK).

Oracle on Wednesday announced the public release of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) and the Java EE 7 SDK.

Google’s threat to Oracle’s Java EE control I propose a more complex, less obvious answer to the question of why Oracle is suing Google: because Oracle wants a tighter reign over Java EE.

JavaOne in San Francisco this week will address the future of JavaFX, as well as Java platform support for HTML5.