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 ...

In a survey by the Eclipse Foundation, more developers are using Jakarta EE than Spring and Java 21 is quickly establishing ...

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 ...

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems this week are making moves in Java, with Sun looking to boost the platform and Microsoft attempting to lure developers away from it. Microsoft has made public the beta ...

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.