There was a fun and wholly civil little mini-blog debate between Twitter's Nick Kalen and the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group's Roman Roelofsen this week. Kalen started it with a post called Why I Love ...

Growing numbers of retailers are scoping out Java-based point-of-sale (POS) systems as one option to replace their aging cash registers. Several retailers that are either deploying or piloting Java ...

A new project just proposed for consideration on the OpenJDK mailing list would address the "long-term pain points" of Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance and large footprint.