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 ...

Mobile applications have evolved from “nice-to-have” bolt-on platforms to business-critical channels that are fuelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle has released a mobile client and associated framework, nearly two years in the making, to help developers quickly build Java applications for industrial mobile devices. The Oracle Application ...

Java has been one of the more popular programming languages and computing platforms on the market since Sun Microsystems released it all the way back in 1995. The free-to-download platform has been ...

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 ...

No matter what type of Java development you do, from server side or client side programming to consumer or enterprise apps, mobile is probably changing the way you do your job. There's just no getting ...

From Project Relator to an internal program called JavaFirst, Sun believes it’s time developers started treating mobile devices like real computers. Mark Jones, InfoWorld’s executive news editor, ...

UK chip designer ARM released a new development kit for its processors on Wednesday, making it easier for developers to take advantage of ARM's Java accelerator, Jazelle. Version 1.2 of ARM's ...

Heroku, the platform-as-a-service provider bought last year by Salesforce.com, announced Thursday that it will begin supporting applications written in Java. Heroku started out running applications ...