For Java developers just getting started with embedded programming and IoT, this guide will orient you in Java ME's history and the new Java ME 8 and Java Embedded platforms.

These eventually became known as Java SE, Java EE, and Java ME: Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is the Java platform for developing client-side applications (which run on desktops) and ...

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

Come the first quarter of next year, GlassFish will also be licensed under GPLv2 to make it easier for developers to distribute versions of Java SE, Java EE and Java ME together.

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

Part of that plan, however, involves the end of life for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6, so Oracle’s roadmap might ruffle some feathers. Here is what is on tap from Oracle for Java.

Red Hat is the new keeper of the keys to two popular versions of the open source Java implementation, OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11, having taken over stewardship from Oracle. Oracle ended commercial ...

Java SE, ME, and EE will all be available under GPLv2, the same license used by the Linux kernel. As before the announcement, commercial licenses will also be available.

The java.util.concurrent.atomic package in Java SE 5.0 and above provides classes that support lock-free thread-safe programming on single variables. The atomic variable classes all expose a ...

Sun is open sourcing its Java SE and Java ME Monday under a somewhat surprising license, GPLv2.