In Minecraft Java Edition, players can either jump into a world on their own and explore it, or they can join their friends in a multiplayer world and play together.

The two companies, which together hold significant sway over the market for Java application servers, are collaborating on a way to build common components within their products.

IBM has dropped Apache Harmony to work with Oracle on the OpenJDK open-source Java implementation, calling it a 'pragmatic choice' prompted by Oracle's refusal to certify the alternative project ...