COMMENTARY--Sun Microsystems firmly established itself as an innovator when it introduced its groundbreaking programming platform, Java, seven years ago. Java was a direct assault on the company's ...

Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...