Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Java landscape—including key players and users—is experiencing a significant shift.

Please proceed into Android hell. After yesterday’s shock lawsuit from Oracle’s accusation of Google lifting its Java technology for Android, comes some deeper analysis. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask ...

I don’t think Oracle suing Google over the use of Java in Android has much to do with Android at all. I think it has everything to do with Oracle monetizing Java anyway it can. That spells big trouble ...

Key Java proponents are up in arms over the planned elimination of the private API sun.misc.Unsafe in the upcoming Java Standard Edition 9 release. Although an officially unsupported API, ...