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 ...

The much-criticized JCP (Java Community Process), which maps out procedures for amending officially sanctioned Java technologies, is set for a face-lift that includes greater transparency and the ...

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 ...

IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would be to everyone's benefit--even Sun. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies ...

We have a commercial applications, Siemens Teamcenter, running in our enterprise. It relies on a couple of Java processes that unfortunately aren't the most robust and reliable things in the IT world.

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 ...

Open-source Java software company JBoss Group said on Monday that it will participate in the Sun Microsystems-controlled process that dictates the technical direction of Java software. Developers from ...