InfoWorld's Peter Wayner reviews CloudBees, GAE, OpenShift, and Cloud Foundry, weighing the pros and cons of Java development on a public cloud platform.

Jakarta EE, a working group hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the general availability of the Jakarta EE 11 ...

Java software provider Azul is unveiling Cloud Native Compiler, a cloud-based compilation service aimed at improving the performance and startup times for JVMs.Performance is boosted for JVM-based ...

While public clouds generally support multiple programming languages, including Python, Java, C++ and Rust, using programming languages that need to be compiled for a target platform will mean ...

Microsoft joins Java-oriented Cloud Foundry Yes, Microsoft. Yes, Java. Oh, and yes, open source. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor June 14, 2017 at 9:31 a.m. PT.

From Java 11 onwards, the free OpenJDK build and paid-for Oracle JDK build are “essentially identical”, with both including commercial features that used to be charged for, such as Java Flight ...

Few other programming languages enjoy the same level of tooling support that Java does, which helps cement itself as the best programming language. 4. First-order Android Support. Android is the world ...

While it may no longer be the flashiest programming language around, Java remains one of the most important. It powers enterprise systems, big data platforms, and cloud-native architectures alike.