Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.’s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop. On Tuesday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance ...

I've got a quite a bit of experience here, and the answer is pretty much zero. You calls are just going to the system... neither Java nor C/C++ are managing your TCP/IP stack; they just wrap calls. So ...

Java could play a bigger part in networking for the Internet of things. The Kona Project, proposed on openjdk.java.net this week, would define and implement Java APIs for networking technologies and ...

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison assured an audience of Java developers on Tuesday that the company will continue to invest and accelerate those investments in Java after it acquires Sun Microsystems ...

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.

The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s simply too easy to snoop, spoof, and steal unprotected information as it travels over the wires. Last month, I wrote the final article in a series on X.509 ...