DPJ-ported parallel code can co-exist with ordinary Java code within the same application, so that programs can be incrementally ported to DPJ, the UPCRC said.

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics ...

In-memory data grid specialist Hazelcast launched a new distributed processing engine for data streams, targeting 'the intersect of Big Data programmers and Java programmers.' ...

Reinders said. He added that he believes parallel programming may lead to new companies attacking problems with new approaches to compete with existing businesses. Exploiting Parallelism ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.