Oracle became stewards of the Java platform as a by-product of their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But looking back, it seems that the Java Platform has been more of a burden than a blessing.

I previously blogged about using RESTClient with the Sun JVM-provided HTTP Server. As I stated in that blog posting, I intend to use these tools to demonstrate HTTP and REST concepts at Rocky Mountain ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a control (signaling) protocol developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to manage interactive multimedia IP sessions including IP telephony, ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...