IBM pressures Sun to free Java IBM's Bob Sutor wants to see Java turned into a real standard, but Sun fears a loss of control could threaten Java's promise of write-once, run-anywhere.

Since Microsoft won't include it as part of Windows XP, Sun is offering the new Java Virtual Machine for Microsoft's Windows XP as a free download.

The Federal Circuit recently decided Oracle America v. Google Inc. To attract Java developers to build apps for Android, Google copied the declaring code, but wrote its own implementing code for ...

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

Oracle released patches for 98 security issues across a wide range of products, including 14 in Java. This marks the last free patch for Java 7, and users are being encouraged to upgrade to version 8.