Sometimes I just want to punch java in the face. — Jen Golbeck (@jengolbeck) October 4, 2016 Upon seeing this tweet, a man, Ludovic Reenaers , tweeted back at Golbeck, assuming she was an ...

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Millions of computer users who run the most recent versions of Oracle's Java software should disable it owing to security flaws, says the cybersecurity section of the Department of Homeland Security.

James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language and the virtual machine, skipped many of his high school math and physics classes. His teachers knew it, but they still gave him A’s.

When Google was developing Android it decided to include 11,500 lines of computer code taken from the Java SE API, which Oracle now owns through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.