Scala has been receiving much attention lately as a possible candidate to replace Java in the future. James Strachan creator of Groovy advocates in favor of Scala as James Gosling, creator of Java ...

IOWA CITY - After confirming earlier this month plans to replace the Java House in four locations across its sprawling campus, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Wednesday unveiled ...

Google is working on the ultimate come-back: It has created a programming language called Golang, or Go, that some people say can replace Java altogether.

Android will be using OpenJDK, an open source-licensed version of Java SE that has been in development since 2007 (before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and became the de facto owner of Java).

Developers participating in the evolution of standard Java may soon have a new source-code management system for the project, with the community set to investigate alternatives—including Git ...