The software maker, aiming to deliver "the best interactive user experience on the Web," says it plans to make its new Java Virtual Machine for Microsoft's Windows XP available for free.

Since Microsoft won't include it as part of Windows XP, Sun is offering the new Java Virtual Machine for Microsoft's Windows XP as a free download.

Oracle has updated their roadmap for Free support of Java 8. This removes the previously reported "cliff edge" for Java 8 support but still only leaves a four-month cut over period and no long ...

After spending a week Java-free back in 2010, PCMag ’s Larry Seltzer concluded that the Java platform as a whole “is pretty clearly a failure, and all that remains of it is a big fat attack ...

What the recent changes to support and licensing of Java developer tools means for you.