If Oracle would just give the official Java blessing to Android, all the innovation that might arise from it would get plowed back into the platform. As it is, it will forever be walled off.

Java Platform Enterprise Edition (EE) 6, featuring a capability for function-based profiles, has been approved by the official Java standards body, with an implementation of the specification to ...

Java could add a Lisp-based read-evaluate-print-loop tool as part of Project Kulla, but developers debate whether it's a good fit.