Called Java EE Guardians, the group launched a petition about the matter on change.org on Thursday, said Reza Rahman, former EE evangelist at Oracle and a leader of Java Guardians.

A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years.

And Oracle not indicated if there would be future direct support from Oracle for development of the platform. Meanwhile, development of Java SE, the desktop Java runtime, has continued at life ...

Beginning with Oracle Java SE 11 (18.9 LTS), the Oracle JDK will continue to be available royalty-free for development, testing, prototyping or demonstrating purposes.

Lately, however, a series of licensing and pricing changes for Oracle Java SE, the popular Java runtime and support subscription, has raised concerns across the global Java community. Under the ...

Oracle’s Co-CEO Mark Hurd recently acknowledged that Java users typically are months to years behind in their patching schedule. Upgrading versions or rewriting apps takes even longer if it is ...

Oracle released Java 7 update 15, which patched five critical vulnerabilities in the Java platform. Apple also released a new version of Java for Mac OS X which removes the plug-in from the Apple ...

Oracle's lawsuit against Google for Java patent infringement highlights how Android is going to become a big target in court. Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor Aug. 12, 2010, 9:41 p.m. PT ...

An eagle-eyed licensing consultant in Germany has spotted that licensing terms for downloads from the VirtualBox website have ...

When Google started working on Java in the mid-2000s, the technology was owned by Sun Microsystems—Oracle didn't acquire Sun until 2010. In 2005, Google approached Sun about a licensing deal.