James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect.

Underlying much of the connected devices that make up the Internet of Things is Java ME 8 software. At MakerCon 2015, inventors tested the commercial waters for their wares.

JetBrains, the Prague-based maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA, has introduced a new JVM-targeted programming language. Code named "Kotlin," it's a statically-typed language ...

ZeroTurnaround, an Estonian company with its hands deep in the Java cookie jar, has just bought Javeleon, a tool that lets you instantly see changes to code in a running Java application.

Instantiations has been known for their popular Java/Ajax development tools and in particular their Google Web Toolkit (GWT) designer. They're so closely associated with it that at the top of ...

A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.