Still, when thousands of Java programmers gathered in San Francisco earlier this month for the annual JavaOne confab, they were faced with a technology that remains a work in progress with a dual ...

Sun Microsystems took another step toward its promised open-source Java this week, launching a portal site to talk with the Java community about the process of setting Java free.

The thing that seems to have brought IBM into Oracle's camp was a need to have Java progress. IBM is deeply invested in the success of Java, while Oracle's roadmap for JDK 7 and 8 had zero backing ...