The upcoming Java Standard Edition 6.0 release will include an implementation of Java Specification Request 223, Scripting for the Java Platform. This JSR is about programming languages and their ...

In this article, we will equip BoolScript, a simple Boolean language I introduced in my previous JavaWorld article, “Build Your Own Scripting Language for Java,” with Web scripting.

While Oracle is trying to carve out a future for Java, there's also lots of history to the programming language that has shaped much of today's technology.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

In TIOBE’s latest Programming Community Index, Java dropped out of the top three most popular languages after being surpassed by C++.

Most of the "mainstream" programming languages—such as C, Java, C#, Perl, Ruby, and Python—can do the same—or nearly the same—tasks as the others.