The upstart open-source software provider says it will participate as a company in Java technical committees in another effort to improve its standing in the Java community. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the standardization process for the programming language to create greater visibility and participation. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Several major backers of Java have proposed changes to the Java Community Process (JCP), the Java standards body, in a move designed to speed the development of Java standards and increase the ...

Although it's nearly 25 years old, the Java programming language has gained renewed interest lately from major cloud platform providers -- namely, AWS and Microsoft. For instance, this week AWS joined ...

The Java Community Process is frequently under fire from community members who have called for greater transparency and even independence from Sun. Some say the real problem with the JCP is too little ...

Open-source Java software company JBoss Group said on Monday that it will participate in the Sun Microsystems-controlled process that dictates the technical direction of Java software. Developers from ...

Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the Java standardization process to create greater visibility and participation. Sun said Thursday that the managing board of the Java Community ...