Looks like Oracle’s continued push for Java everywhere, from the “Internet of things” on down, isn’t just based on hype. At least one set of numbers puts Java’s performance head and shoulders above ...

Instead, Java took off as an Internet language to enhance thin client browsers (applets) and went on to become hugely successful as a server-side platform (servlets and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

More than eight years after it first came to light, an unauthenticated Java deserialization vulnerability lurking in the Google Web Toolkit open source application framework remains unpatched, and ...

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 ...