The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

There are technologists who follow industry shifts and there are those who have lived through their defining moments. Gil Tene belongs to the latter group. As Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer ...

Some Internet appliance and embedded device developers have concluded that current implementations of the Java specifications are either functionally incomplete for their use, too slow, too unreliable ...