We cover some of the most popular big data tools for Java developers. Discover the best big data tools and what to look for. In the modern era of data-driven decision-making, the abundance of data ...

At last year’s Oracle Code One conference, Java’s rapid-release cadence—a new version every six months—was still making news. And it wasn’t even new anymore. The change in release frequency from years ...

Microsoft is furthering its big Java push -- marked by last year's debut of the Java Engineering Group in its Developer Division -- by porting OpenJDK for Windows 10 on Arm (AArch64)-based devices. As ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Given a five-year wait for the release of Java 11, and three-year spans between the releases of Java 8 and Java 9, it's easy to understand why the Java community raised a collective ...

It's easy to get confused by all the knobs and levers that add up to Java and even more confusing when Sun announces that it's open sourcing something that's Java-related. For years now, IBM and ...

While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture because ...

The first part of this article introduced Neo4j and its Cypher Query Language. If you’ve read Part 1, you’ve seen for yourself why Neo4j and other graph databases are especially popular for social ...

String deduplication and Java modularity spark new interest as JavaOne nears As is typical when JavaOne is imminent, there has been much big news in the Java community recently. This post briefly ...

The ecosystem around server side Java -- known as "big Java" inside Sun but Java EE (Enterprise Edition) everywhere else -- is thriving. So much so that the open source crowd has crashed the party (a ...

The software giant's rivals are countering it by adopting one of its most successful strategies: Offering easy-to-use tools to drive sales of server software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...