COMMENTARY--Sun Microsystems firmly established itself as an innovator when it introduced its groundbreaking programming platform, Java, seven years ago. Java was a direct assault on the company's ...

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Yesterday, I published a pair of posts that connect the dots between the recent Novell/Microsoft pact and Sun's plans to open source Java. I've been following the comments that ZDNet's readers have ...

Santa Clara, Calif. — Sun Microsystems’s offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a “momentous” change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday.

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Sun releases Java's source code under the GPL--except for some third-party chunks and the compatibility test kit. Video: Gosling on Sun's JavaFX Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this ...