Programming Languages

Sun’s Java VM no good for embedded market, HP says

Hewlett-Packard opposes standards process used in Java development

Letters to the Editor

This month: Bryan Morgan's call for suggestions (in the debut installment of his new Distributed Objects column) hasn't gone unnoticed. He sifts through the deluge to shape his column's itinerary for the next six months. Plus: Correcti

Java jazzes point of sale systems with new APIs

Java gets set to hit the mall -- with a new API specification in tow

JavaBeans book review

We picked three winners -- now let's see how they stack up

Unfurling Java’s data transfer API

Learn to share data among applications with Java's data transfer classes

Sun, IBM pitch JavaOS for NCs as PC complement

Sun’s JavaSoft division faces widespread reorganization

New director of product marketing hired to spearhead improvements to Sun division

JavaSoft faces competition from freeware

Companies come up with clean-room implementations of the Java virtual machine

Sun reorganizes company structure

So, what's happened to the ol' JavaSoft division?

Java databases sprouting slowly

Can a pure Java product offer the performance that customers are used to from their databases?