A lot of Windows users, when trying to open Java-based applications such as Minecraft, are seeing the following error message. A problem caused the program to stop ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is refashioning customer support options for Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE), extending support to 15 years under one paid plan and reducing it from six years to three years ...

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Open-source Java platform provider Azul Systems today unveiled a new series of migration tools and services designed to help enterprise and public sector IT teams transition from proprietary Oracle ...

In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java SE 7 (Java Platform Standard Edition 7), the company announced Thursday. This is the ...

Apple has announced that, along with Oracle, it is kicking off the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. As part of the partnership, Apple's software engineers "will contribute most of the key components, ...

ARM this week announced that it's inked a multi-year contract with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for ARM 32-bit platforms and also to add Java SE ...

Although the release late last month of Java SE 7 did not come off without a hitch — serious bugs turned up in the release candidate and had to be fixed in the Update 1 release — the platform ...