The technology is legendary, but how and why Sun Microsystems eventually settled on the name 'Java' was always something of a mystery—even to those involved. When Time magazine called Java one of the ...

Technology rebranding is a tricky business, but not a new phenomenon in the enterprise Java space. Remember the market disorientation caused by Sun Microsystems' decision in 2006 to rebrand J2EE as ...

I'm making a game for Android using Java and the Libgdx engine. However, I want the code to be independent of the engine, and so am wrapping any references to Libgdx in its own class. For example, for ...

Remember when Oracle bought Sun? The one thing that seemed to make sense about this deal was Oracle's acquisition of Java. Almost 10 years later, Oracle gave up on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), aka ...

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...

The Javadoc documentation for the Package class states: Package objects contain version information about the implementation and specification of a Java package. This versioning information is ...