After much market speculation, Sun Microsystems today announced it will adopt the GNU General Public License (GPL) to govern open source Java. It also releases the first set of source codes to the ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...

I'm doing some Java stuff with school, and I was wondering if it's possible to create a console gui, in Java? I'm not getting much with google, as I'm not sure what "this" is called.<br><br>Basicly, ...

If you had to boil down the keynote messages from Oracle executives and guest speakers at this year's JavaOne conference, held in San Francisco last week, you could do it with two phrases: Java first!

Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, ...