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.

This post compares Python vs Java. What are the differences in terms of structure and design? Which is easier for beginners? And what can you do with them?

"Java achieved a high level of pervasiveness in the 2000s," Hammonds' Forrester colleague, analyst Randy Heffner, pointed out. "And it's a useful, effective, and efficient language for what it does.

What is a Java compiler? A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming ...

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.