Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java.

The Java Product Versioning Specification approach for documenting this type of information is based on the jar file. Stored within every jar file is a plain text file called Manifest.mf.

The J2EE 1.4 specification codifies the Web services support in an effort to ensure compatibility across purveyors of Java tools and application servers.

Oracle submitted its Java Specification Request (JSR) 198 proposal last month to the Java Community Process (JCP), the Sun Microsystems-led program for introducing new features into Java ...

IBM and BEA will submit the specifications to the industrywide Java standardization effort, called the Java Community Process, and will make the guidelines available to other companies without ...

For example, in 2019, the company announced that Java SE would no longer be free, and then in 2020 it introduced the NFTC (No-Fee Terms and Conditions) for JDK 17 and later, which permitted free use ...