It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle Corp. announced today the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software ...

While Java EE is not nearly as strategic to the company as Java SE, it still indirectly contributes to the more than 70 percent of Oracle revenue that comes from software and support license sales.

Java SE 8 and the accompanying JDK 8 also have been slated to include such features as Java Virtual Machine convergence and JavaFX 3.0, as well as bulk parallel operations via Project Lambda.

Java 9 -- better known as Java SE 9 Platform Specification, or Java SE 9 (JDK 9) -- comes nearly three years after the release of Java 8.. In addition to Java 9, Oracle announced the availability of ...

While the foundation does not yet have an official roadmap for Jakarta EE, short-term targets for the technology include upgrading the support for Java SE to at least Java SE 11, which is a Long Term ...

Up until now, Oracle has welcomed the participation of the open-source community with suggestions and plans on how to develop the Java SE and EE platforms but has always kept a leading role over ...

These results do not surprise me. For one, I fall in the camp of those who would rather see a once-dominant client-side technology improved and enhanced (such as has been done with Java SE 6 ...

The long silence is apparently over. After an extended quiet period following last October’s Java One conference, Oracle has finally provided a hint about the company’s actual plans for Java ...

Java EE has been rebranded to Jakarta EE by the Eclipse Foundation community.. The name comes from the Jakarta Project, an early Apache open-source effort. “It is preferred that when you are ...

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) along with industry support from Java technology licensees including Caucho, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat.