Oracle, users and the development community worldwide are celebrating 20 years of Java, the world’s leading programming language. Today, Java serves as the critical backbone of software that touches ...

With Microsoft throwing its formidable weight behind .NET services, there is little doubt that people will begin using it. But this will not make Java go away. Like the hardy mainframe, which not only ...

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Alachisoft recently released a native Java implementation of its in-memory .NET distributed cache, NCache. The new JvCache is a 100 percent Java version of the company's flagship .NET cache, and the ...

Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and Oracle’s Java. All three are virtually ubiquitous on modern-day PCs, and all three provide handy-dandy functionality—functionality that, in the case of Flash and Java, ...