Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

OpenJDK’s Project Leyden will implement condensers to improve the startup time, time to peak performance, and resource footprint of Java programs. Project Leyden, an ambitious effort to improve ...

JNI is essential to the implementation of Java, since the JVM needs to interact with the native platform to implement some of its functionality. Apart from that, however, use of Java classes can often ...

Sun Microsystems is seeking to build momentum in its programming tools business with updates to its different products. At a quarterly customer conference on Wednesday, the company announced a number ...

I've wanted to write this article for quite a while. Over the years I've noted that Java-based music and sound applications have increased in number and quality, yet no comprehensive list or summaries ...

Deep learning and supervised learning gets all the attention in applications of artificial intelligence. But, unsupervised methods are slowly moving out of laboratories and into commercial ...

Sun Microsystems will begin a broadly available testing program next month for its forthcoming Java Studio Creator, a Java development tool designed to woo away Microsoft programmers. The company said ...

Oracle has announced its commercial support program for Java SE (Standard Edition), opting for a subscription model instead of one that has had businesses paying for a one-time perpetual licence plus ...