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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I last sat down with Heather VanCura, chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), in 2017, roughly a year after she'd stepped up to head the Java language and platform standards organization. A lot has ...

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 ...

It's been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But ...

The Apache Software Foundation has resigned from the Java steering group, claiming that the widely-used scripting platform is a proprietary technology under the full control of Oracle. In a blog post ...

import java.io.IOException; public class ProcessDemo { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { Process p = new ProcessBuilder("notepad.exe").start ...

You'd think I'd have seen it coming. All the signs were there. There was the day Microsoft announced that it had joined the OpenJDK project back in 2019. Then there ...