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In Pictures: 15 things we hate about Java

Slow startup times, null pointers, security flaws -- Java's ongoing success leaves plenty to complain about

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Oracle: Eclipse may not use Java EE trademarks

But Oracle remains committed to working with the Jakarta EE working group and Jakarta EE specification process
In Pictures: 15 things we hate about Java

Slow startup times, null pointers, security flaws -- Java's ongoing success leaves plenty to complain about
Big Data Application Framework Gets Update, SQL Interface

Open source big data application platform specialist Concurrent has released a new version of the Cascading application framework and simultaneously released Cascading Lingual 1.0, an ANSI SQL interface for Hadoop.
Latest Java zero-day exploit renews calls to disable it

Oracle contributes to the problem by not working more closely with the security industry on Java defenses, one security expert said
Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots

James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he's using it today to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research projects.

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