What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

To maintain its prominence, Java must evolve to meet the needs of cloud computing, the author of the popular Spring Framework for Java said on Tuesday. Java needs continued productivity increases and ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. “The report of my death,” literary giant Mark Twain once said “was an exaggeration”. Like Twain, Java has had a ...

The other day we wrote an article about Java incompatibilities causing problems with Apple's Mail program, and linked to an Apple knowledgebase article that claimed the simple way to reinstall Java is ...

Using the latest versions of Java in Firefox MacFixIt reader Sam Sjogren notes a workaround that allows Firefox to use the latest Java releases from Apple, rather than being stuck at version 1.3.1: ...