The pervasiveness of mobile phones today is driving the rapid growth of Java application development in Asia, according to Sun Microsystems. Matt Thompson, senior director of Sun's developer network ...

Smartphones get all the buzz, but mobile app warehouse GetJar claims that 90 percent of phones in use worldwide, and 72 percent of American phones, are still the non-smartphones that the mobile ...

OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS (and Android) as a native binary, opening the way to run unmodified Java code on ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems has revealed plans to further develop component-based applications for wireless devices. As the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company continues to beat its “Java ...

Before the Java language was known as Java, it was called Oak—a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, the idea of networked smart devices everywhere was ...

Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...