Online payment service PayPal says swapping Java for node.js on its servers is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying the creation of server-side software. PayPal has moved from ...

Lots of developers are understandably concerned about Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google, which alleges that the Dalvik virtual machine in the search giant’s Android smartphone OS violates Java ...

There is a lot of noise around saying – uninstall or disable Java – as it is vulnerable. Studying the topic, I found almost all versions have gone through similar exploits in the past. Sun, and later, ...

The recent JavaLobby post The Top 10 Unused Features in Java has been extremely popular. At the time of this writing, it is the top ranked post in the DZone Top Links category. In addition a reply to ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss.

Many people assume just because JavaScript has “Java” in its name that the two are somehow related. Although most programmers will roll their eyes at this confusion, the history of the two programming ...

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Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it’s one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with ...

RedMonk released its June 2019 programming language rankings on Thursday. The ranking is based on its analysis of developer chatter on coder knowledge-sharing site, Stack Overflow, and the number of ...

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.