First, why is Java cross-platform? Let's dig into the history of the language first. Sun Microsystems, the inventor of Java, was a popular vendor in the computer workstation market in the 1990s. As ...

Acquiring the Java platform wasn't a top priority when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. There were plenty of ways for Oracle to completely ignore the Java Platform and still justify Sun's $7.4 ...

.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools, languages, and ...

NTT DoCoMo and Sun have begun work on a new Java platform for cellular handsets. The work, which began last year but was first revealed two weeks ago at Sun’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, is ...

The second chapter of JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform begins with a deeper look at dependency injection using Weld. Finnigan describes the ability to inject dependencies at class level (via ...