Six companies, including IBM, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, are expected on Wednesday to open up patents relating to software for remotely updating mobile devices such as cell phones. The move will ...

Cell phones using Sun Microsystems' Java software have finally begun shipping, but the real payoff is expected when phones begin using special Java chips to improve performance. Stephen Shankland ...

Here's everything you need to know about Java operators and operator types, and how to use them to write expressions for your Java programs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to write expressions ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When the seminal Java whitepaper introduced the language in 1995, it listed seven key benefits ...

Even for development teams with an agile practice, testing, especially testing of a constantly evolving user interface can be a bottleneck if test scripts have to be manually rewritten to account for ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems' Java Card technology, which is used to identify millions of mobile phone users, is expected to come to PCs as well, a Sun executive said. Java Card is a standard for ...

The company, one of the few remaining in the mainframe market, will begin selling a new high-end system that includes features to run newer software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...