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Sun is working on technology to make it easier to run different languages on the Java Virtual Machine. Called the Da Vinci Machine, the project is being described by Sun as “a multi-language ...

The Java ecosystem supports a host of outstanding back-end frameworks, including many written for modern languages like Scala and Kotlin. Here's how seven top frameworks for Java and JVM languages ...

While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture because ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.