The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Jakarta EE 8, the first truly open-source, vendor-neutral version of Java Enterprise Edition.

Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

Big Blue offers to work with Sun to help shepherd the programming language--Sun's most valuable software asset--through an open-source development model.

Survey finds majority of Oracle Java users audited in past 3 years, leading to migration to open-source Java due to dissatisfaction with pricing.

Four in five have migrated, are migrating, or will migrate from Oracle Java, report finds 66% agree they could save 40% by switching to open source 96% agree they have concerns with licensing or ...

Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse.