Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun Microsystems on the basic principles of the software. For ...

James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he’s ...

Ongoing legal sparring between Java-inventor, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft has created instability for Java-based streaming advertising technologies. Now that Macromedia’s video-enabling Flash MX ...