Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States held that Google’s use of certain Java Application Programming Interfaces (API) in its Android operating system was not copyright infringement ...

Mojang Studios released snapshot 24W14a, which added a lot of technical and gameplay bug fixes to the game. In the list of technical changes, Mojang stated that the game will now require a 64-bit ...

The discovery of a serious software bug has simultaneously opened a variety of desktop computers to potential attack. The flaw has been found in Java, which works on a variety of computer operating ...

The Java wars have spilled into the consumer market. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are teaming to compete against Sun Microsystems in the nascent market for technology that networks consumer ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The latest long-term support (LTS) release of the JDK is Java 21, which was released in ...

With opportunity everywhere, the Javasoft division of Sun Microsystems seems to be going in every direction. This is particularly visible in the company's ambitious effort to find new places to push ...

AWT: Abstract Windowing Toolkit, the part of Java that gives programmers the language’s graphical user interface (GUI). CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture, a standard for communicating ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Developers can build intelligent robots with Java, as it provides APIs for programming systems that can see, hear, speak, move, and even learn, using neural networks, which are algorithms that mimic ...