As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform.

Oracle, which officially took on the big job of shepherding Java two years ago this month, is traveling bumpy roads lately, with its modularization and licensing plans for Java raising eyebrows and ...

Most experienced developers have experienced some form of system rot: the quality of a program deteriorates over time and it becomes more and more expensive to update and maintain it. This is often ...