With changes to a licensing program, Sun paves the way for open-source Java application server projects JBoss and Apache to comply with the J2EE standard. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

VARBusiness:How has your original vision for Java changed or evolved over the years? Any big surprises? A: The thing that's hard about that question is that there are just so many interesting things.

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

After being criticized for putting users at risk by staggering security updates, Sun has decided to give advance notice of Java SE updates and release them all at once Sun is taking a page from ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. will cut developers loose from the wired world next week at the JavaOne conference when it details the next version of its Forte for Java developer tools. The new version will be ...

Microsoft Corp. must distribute Java technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. in every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer that it ships, a U.S. federal judge ruled today. U.S. District Judge Frederick ...