The pervasiveness of mobile phones today is driving the rapid growth of Java application development in Asia, according to Sun Microsystems. Matt Thompson, senior director of Sun's developer network ...

Smartphones get all the buzz, but mobile app warehouse GetJar claims that 90 percent of phones in use worldwide, and 72 percent of American phones, are still the non-smartphones that the mobile ...

Before the Java language was known as Java, it was called Oak—a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, the idea of networked smart devices everywhere was ...

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 ...

UK chip designer ARM released a new development kit for its processors on Wednesday, making it easier for developers to take advantage of ARM's Java accelerator, Jazelle. Version 1.2 of ARM's ...

No matter what type of Java development you do, from server side or client side programming to consumer or enterprise apps, mobile is probably changing the way you do your job. There's just no getting ...

Mobile software company Myriad Group announced J2Android, which will make it possible for Java-based mobile applications to run on Android-based phones, the company said on Monday. The J2Android tool ...

TIOBE Index News (September 2023): Java Competitor Kotlin Returns to the Top 20 Your email has been sent This month, the programming language Kotlin reached the top 20 on the TIOBE Programming ...