Java 2 Micro Editions Sun's Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) delivers an embedded development framework that can be enhanced incrementally. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the base on which ...

A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...

The MicroProfile Working Group, the open forum that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture, just released their latest iteration, MicroProfile 7.1. After ten months of development, ...

A revision to a much-anticipated Java standard will be delayed about three months in order to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable. Sun Microsystems, which controls the ...

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For some reason, there's this belief that Java microservices have to be server-side components that connect to back-end resources, such as databases and message queues. There's also a misconception ...

Solid and well-understood makes for better development environments than fashionable. Java is not fashionable, but it’s still right for business. When I mention Java to young developers, including my ...

In 2012 and again in 2013 my colleague Will Oremus wrote that, “you should probably disable Java on your browser right now.” Welcome to the 2015 edition! Java is a popular programming language often ...