BANGALORE, INDIA: Since Java is open source, anybody can download it and use it for free on their respective devices. Sun Microsystems, the founder of Java, releases multiple updates on a regular ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...