Java is a popular programming language that provides many advantages for distributed systems, such as platform independence, enabling programs to run on any machine with a Java Virtual Machine ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.

Abstract: The Java language and platform provide a base for distributed computing that changes several conventional assumptions. In particular, the Java Virtual Machine allows a group of Java-enabled ...

Both the Java language itself and the available Java libraries support concurrent programming via APIs such as those in the java.util.Concurrent package. If you really want to dig into how to use JVM ...

However, Java has a reputation as a “slow” language, so some say it is unsuitable for teaching PDC. This paper gives a head-to-head comparison of the performance of OpenMPI's Java and C bindings. Our ...

No one who isn't lazy writes scripts. Scripts save valuable system administrator time. In this article, I introduce the Sleep scripting language, which is a Perl-inspired language built on the Java ...

Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, has released Akka 3, an update to the JVM-based distributed computing platform that adds a Java SDK as well as serverless and “bring your own cloud ...

Wikipedia currently lists more than 20 maintained CLI language projects, and almost all of them represent .NET ports of existing languages, from Pascal to JavaScript to COBOL—and yes, even Java.