Java is a popular programming language that every programmer should learn. This article explains much of what you need to know.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

A brief history of Java Depending on who you ask, Java is either the most popular or second-most-popular programming language in the world. Huge chunks of Amazon, Google, Netflix, PayPal, and lots ...

What Is Java? Java is a programming language that developers use to create applications on your computer.

Java meanwhile is used to develop a number of desktop and mobile applications. Java used to be the primary language used for Android development, until Google announced that Kotlin would be its ...

Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language.

Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ), the Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ), and Jikes. Programmers typically write language statements ...

What the recent changes to support and licensing of Java developer tools means for you.

The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.