It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

Java's origins trace back to the early 1990s, when a team at Sun Microsystems led by James Gosling set out to develop a language for interactive ...

saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services.

June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me ...

Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming language ... to run programs known as "Java applets" in your browser.