Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

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While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK.