Oracle recently freed J2EE, aka Java EE. Now known as Jakarta EE, enterprise Java's new manager the Eclipse Foundation is revealing its plans for the popular middleware platform.

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

Java applications were packaged in JAR files, and web applications were packaged in WAR files. Shortly thereafter, developers started deploying Java web apps and Enterprise JavaBeans together as Java ...

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 revitalized Java 101 series unpacks Java programming concepts for a new generation of developers, while Open Source Java Projects showcases enterprise tools and frameworks culled from GitHub and ...

“IBM built a new, state-of-the-art generative AI code model to transform legacy COBOL programs to enterprise Java with a high degree of naturalness in the generated code,” Puri told TechCrunch ...

But that high regard may not extend to Java as a general-purpose programming language. Certainly some of Oracle’s movements since the purchase point to a more restricted use.